Range Report Dinosaur looking for replacement ballistics program

[VaRandy]

In a previous life I used a program exclusively that was out of Aberdeen Maryland that used G1. etc. It would not be suitable today for tactical or military use but offered exactly what I wanted and still want today. I would have to go search to find out its name but it was DOS only which offered a poor solution for printing.

I understand well the needs of the tactical world but I was benchrest shooting groundhogs at ranges from 500 and up. It allowed you to enter scope clicks as a decimal value, not just select from 1/4, 1/2, etc. It allowed massive printouts of multiple pages with a row per each 5 yds or any other increment.

I used these massive printouts because I new the elevation and temperature before the trip since I hunted the same farms in a round robin fashion. I know the speed of the projectile, the bc, etc to complete a set of printouts to take with me for the trip, If I take a target at 810 yards and then see an opportunity at 535 I can look at two rows and take the difference in clicks to move down to take the shot. Differences in elevation, if constantly high or low, may mean adjusting a bc by a few thousanth for correction. Even though my scopes are top notch and will take the constant up and down, I don't want to go additional clicks by going back to a zero and then looking at the next shot as if it were the first.

When doing initial load work I tweaked the BC to equal observed vertical performance. Also we had up to 4 benchrests set up each with its own weapon and ballistics charts. You could sit at any one and see what distance the last shot was enabling you to again reference the new distance and take a difference for vertical clicks.

Wind was shown on each line and required estimating to actual drift per 5 or 10 mph.

So once again, I see to be the only person in the world that needs something that does not exist. IF anyone knows of such a program, I will sure welcome the heads up because I am retired now and ready to get back to serious shooting.

 

[flounderv2]

In a previous life I used a program exclusively that was out of Aberdeen Maryland that used G1. etc. It would not be suitable today for tactical or military use but offered exactly what I wanted and still want today. I would have to go search to find out its name but it was DOS only which offered a poor solution for printing.

I understand well the needs of the tactical world but I was benchrest shooting groundhogs at ranges from 500 and up. It allowed you to enter scope clicks as a decimal value, not just select from 1/4, 1/2, etc. It allowed massive printouts of multiple pages with a row per each 5 yds or any other increment.

I used these massive printouts because I new the elevation and temperature before the trip since I hunted the same farms in a round robin fashion. I know the speed of the projectile, the bc, etc to complete a set of printouts to take with me for the trip, If I take a target at 810 yards and then see an opportunity at 535 I can look at two rows and take the difference in clicks to move down to take the shot. Differences in elevation, if constantly high or low, may mean adjusting a bc by a few thousanth for correction. Even though my scopes are top notch and will take the constant up and down, I don't want to go additional clicks by going back to a zero and then looking at the next shot as if it were the first.

When doing initial load work I tweaked the BC to equal observed vertical performance. Also we had up to 4 benchrests set up each with its own weapon and ballistics charts. You could sit at any one and see what distance the last shot was enabling you to again reference the new distance and take a difference for vertical clicks.

Wind was shown on each line and required estimating to actual drift per 5 or 10 mph.

So once again, I see to be the only person in the world that needs something that does not exist. IF anyone knows of such a program, I will sure welcome the heads up because I am retired now and ready to get back to serious shooting.

Not sure what your problem is. Almost any of the ballistic programs out there will let you adjust bc, fps, scope clicks, range increments, etc. You can then email to yourself in excel format and print. You just need to be willing to learn the new programs and sort through the options you want and use them.
Check out Shooter.

 

[VaRandy]

First of all I need to be able to say bc = whatever I say, clicks = whatever I say (.313 inch/click for example) and allow a printout of numerous pages with a row for every5 feet of drop beginning with maybe a 500 yard zero and the clicks for every distance from 100 to maybe 1500 yards. These charts will be prepared before the trip for my use.

I will look at Shooter

 

[jbmillard]

First of all I need to be able to say bc = whatever I say, clicks = whatever I say (.313 inch/click for example) and allow a printout of numerous pages with a row for every5 feet of drop beginning with maybe a 500 yard zero and the clicks for every distance from 100 to maybe 1500 yards. These charts will be prepared before the trip for my use.

I will look at Shooter

Many people either don't know or don't understand, but my online programs will do this. The drop and windage units can be input as any value and one of six different units (the windage and drop units are independent).

So for your example above, just enter your value, say 0.313 and select inches (or inches/100 yards).

Brad

 

[Deleted member 10043]

First off, welcome back to shooting. I understand where you are coming from. I think you are looking for a modified McCoy most likely Dexadine, or Corbin. The latter two still exists but for the Windows OS. The type of printer that old software supports would be harder to find then the software itself and today's operating systems wouldn't understand the code even if you found a printer that was compatible. You would need the old program, an old machine that would run it at the original snail's pass as well as a working dot matrix printer. Even third party Window client to push a DOS program still wouldn't help without the original printer drivers. So, lots of obstacles here. This old code has been morphed several times and still exists today in HTML and others available for different operating systems and devices. Example, today you can find it on the Internet at JBM. The link is included in Brad's signature in the post above. Brad has always been very helpful to me and does respond to emails. He is very passionate about his work as well he should be. He gladly shares it with all. But you are SOL if you are going to find something that is going to print a dot matrix book to take in the field or on the range. That kind of technology fits in the palm of your hand now. No pun intended.