I got to shoot over the flags Saturday. Wind was around 8-10 mph and shifting. Those flags rotated 360 constantly. I was at a loss to decipher how to hold. I don’t know if I learned anything more than not to overcorrect. Right now my heads spinning about as much as those flags were. Do the ball type heads react differently than the daisy heads? Thanks, folks.
If your flags are rotating 360 constantly, perhaps your in a vortex....???I got to shoot over the flags Saturday. Wind was around 8-10 mph and shifting. Those flags rotated 360 constantly. I was at a loss to decipher how to hold. I don’t know if I learned anything more than not to overcorrect. Right now my heads spinning about as much as those flags were. Do the ball type heads react differently than the daisy heads? Thanks, folks.
Seriously though each condition I see is an opportunity to learn something, so what I try to do during the sighter period is take a shot to identify how much the bullet is moved per condition and where it’s hitting, I may need a couple clicks or holdover without over correcting and getting burned during a letoff. I’m also trying to get a handle on the condition I want to shoot in.
I’ll need X amount of time to get all my rounds down range so a wind cycle that changes rapidly won’t help me nor will a dead calm that last for ten seconds.
I’ll mentally time the cycles to identify the one I want and sometimes just wait until mine comes back and then shoot.
I suck at wind reading but I keep at and maybe one day I’ll get it..
J