Wind ?

[Rick Mulhern]

rick,
a third thing could happen.
but only if you fire a shot when it goes to a boil.
an experienced shooter can almost plot in their head subconsciously.
a newer shooter can learn a lot from it.
a windcoach should plot, or have a plotter do it for him/her
some plotsheets are better than others, and ones that have a call on them are better.
I have found that staying glued to flags and scope can have pitfalls when it is changing gradually.
when this happens, a mental snapshot of flag and mirage at time of shot is handy.
when you come back to it, a slow change has not had the chance to creep up on you.
the mental snapshot is very handy for those who wipe.
relating the snapshot to the wind setting on the sight is also handy.
keep safe,
bruce.

Depending upon the accuracy of the rifle, experience of the shooter, and the shooters' call, the process of an insidious change denotes WHERE the shooter should want the POI to be! Such as....if the condition denotes say 4 MOA right windage which is on the sight setting and a gradual let off is in process...the shooter should be OK with the POI being toward the nine o/clock side of the ten ring such that while the shooter is 'in the rifle' the next shot is still in the ten ring (but having moved farther toward the middle or toward the 3 o/clock side of the ten right) and at this point, if observation shows, based upon the shooters' call that the mirage is still slowing along with a decreased flag condition, a reduction in the sight setting could possibly be warranted!

As to the 'pitfalls'.....I don't ever recall an instance whereby having an eye glued to the scope watching the mirage....if visible, ever got me in trouble but there were times when I had my head up me Irish arse (it's bad dark up in there) that shots appeared where I didn't want them to be!

As an aside....one of the biggest factors in folks shooting up those narrow 2x4s is the fact that THEY do not know or have a positive NO WIND ZERO!!