Anyone compete using windflags ?

[jpx2rk]

My favorite Is when my 1st flag shows a straight up tail wind and my 2nd flag shows a straight up headwind… at the same time. ... saw this repeatedly this past Saturday.

Been there, done that, but threw the T shirt away.

It's always interesting when one set of flags indicate "X", the next ones over indicate "Y", and you are in the middle. And I suck at reading the wind as well.

 

[VLNBYR]

Wind or no wind every rifle will shoot a group. Pick an aiming point and shoot 5 sighters as well as you can and use that group as your guide for the target. If you overlay all your shots for score onto one bull that group should center on the center of that bull to achieve the highest score. Too many times shooters will miss multiple shots one way because they're scared to death of missing one the other way.

 

[VLNBYR]

Pretty much it, some click the scope some hold off. The key is multiple sighters, nobody ever gets the wind right 100% of the time thus the need to find out where your average shot is going to impact. The whole thing is lost on 99.9% of all shooters because they don't have a rifle capable of shooting where they want it to anyway.

 

[garandman]

In my experience "Existing condition " rarely lasts long enuf for a 5 shot grp.

Where I shoot, wind swirls and varies, both in direction and speed.

I suspect a shooter will drive himself crazy trying to be able to shoot every wind condition / direction / speed. So as one author suggested, find the most prevalent and prevailing wind condition and wait for that condition both in direction and speed To pull the trigger.

If that prevailing and most prevalent condition is sufficiently frequent, then I might adjust my crosshair. But given the swirling varying nature of the wind in most of the places I shoot, It's easier just to hold off.

 

[garandman]

Heres 25 rounds fired at a recent wind reading practice session.... the arrow indicates wind direction, the degrees = the wind value (flag tail at 0 - 30 - 45 degree angle) and the dot = my hold off.




#12 was just a bonehead hold, and #14 I cannot explain. Prolly just yanked the shot.

 

[JMayo]

I watched one if the top PSL/ARA/ir50 shooters at the triple crown nationals. He was using the PQP one piece rest, capable of going between sighters and scoring bull with no trouble at all.
He'd look at flags, shoot several at sighter, look at flags, zoom over to shoot score shot. He prolly went through 3 boxes of red box eley every target.
Unreal scoring, just blew everybody away in all three disciplines we were shooting.
If I are going to try to improve my multi target on one card disciplines I'd get that joystick one piece. Just can't beat the ability to go between sighters and score within a wind condition.
I suppose a seb/farley would work better for a 2 piece set up. You'd have to lower for bottom rows.
I'm gonna use my farley at my club shoots.