I would like to start reading up on how to read the wind. Can some of you recommend books that helped you learn and understand the skill. I know that it takes practice but knowing what to practice is a place to start.
Advanced Marksmanship Book recommendations for reading the wind?
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Imagine water flowing across the terrain.
Second item in the list will help. Trigger Time behind a rifle, watching vegetation, watching mirage, giving your best estimate, and learning from your results is probably the best advice. Reference materials will help but experience is the best teacher.
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Second item in the list will help. Trigger Time behind a rifle, watching vegetation, watching mirage, giving your best estimate, and learning from your results is probably the best advice. Reference materials will help but experience is the best teacher.
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Do you own a kestrel? Carry it around and take readings under different conditions.
Observe
Record
Rinse and repeat.
In my experience you can learn some tricks of the trade but the bigger factor is experience.
Record
Rinse and repeat.
In my experience you can learn some tricks of the trade but the bigger factor is experience.
Bryan Litz’s ‘Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting’ has a chapter that is pretty good
The Wind Book for Rifle Shooters by Linda K. Miller and Keith A. Cunningham, 133 pages, all on reading the wind.
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"The Wind Book for Rifle Shooters" has a couple nuggets in it for a field shooter, but it is entirely geared toward square range paper shooting. It deals heavily with shooting with wind flags and formulas and strategies for across the course type shooting. There is very little that is applicable to unknown distance field shooting.
Plus...it is currently unobtanium because it has been out of print for some time. The copies that show up on fleabay go for stupid money ($75 or more).
Amazon has been stringing people along with a promise of a new printing for 2 years now. I literally had it on pre-order for over a year. I cancelled that order a year ago, and it STILL hasn't been released! I vented my frustration on another forum and a kind member gladly sent me his. I read the whole thing from cover to cover and didn't learn anything applicable to field shooting that I didn't already know.
Plus...it is currently unobtanium because it has been out of print for some time. The copies that show up on fleabay go for stupid money ($75 or more).
Amazon has been stringing people along with a promise of a new printing for 2 years now. I literally had it on pre-order for over a year. I cancelled that order a year ago, and it STILL hasn't been released! I vented my frustration on another forum and a kind member gladly sent me his. I read the whole thing from cover to cover and didn't learn anything applicable to field shooting that I didn't already know.
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Personally some of the best wind instruction I’ve found is the online training course here.
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What does this book have to do with the subject of the OP (reading wind)?
Oh sorry there was a bit of confusion
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SmokeJumper FireWX Wind PDF
This PDF is from the Smoker Jumpers out west on how they look at winds when fighting fires.
www.snipershide.com He might be confusing reading wind with reading farts. Language barrier.
Yeah, it is true. Thank you. because English is not my mother language..
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Nancy Tompkins has an excellent chapter on wind in her book “Prone and Long Range Rifle Shooting”
I would suggest starting here:
- Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting.
- Modern Advancements Vol 1, 2, & 3 for Long Range Shooting.
- The Wind Book for Rifle Shooters - How to improve your accuracy in blistery conditions.
When I took a class last summer the recommended wind book was The Wind Book for Rifle Shooters by Linda K. Miller and Keith A. Cunningham. I saw some on Amazon, think I picked up a copy from eBay. There's charts, graphs, some photos (say if the wind is X, then the flag looks like Y.) There's a section with tips/tricks from different competitors. It was a nice supplement to the class and if I hadn't gone would have been at least a decent start to learn from.
Doc,
Are these volumes stand alone or updates. Do you recommend getting V1 and working though V3, or get V3 for the most up to date info?
They're stand alone volumes. If you check out the Applied Ballistics website there's chapter breakdowns. I've got Volume 2 of that series and while it makes reference to other books, it's almost more like a set of individual standalone chapters they put into book form. It's good stuff, charts, photos, explanations that are easy to read, yet contain all the data and information.
They are actually a continuation. Some studies are in all 3 (meaning future research material is added on). So if you grab version 3 it will reference things from 1 and 2 you might be missing.
