Benchrest- overcast vs bright light conditions?

[Kracken McGraw]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/254063299120
If someone wants to throw a couple of bucks at the problem. Lol!

 

[coldboreshot]

Pray harder and louder.

Step1: cross fingers
Step2: close eyes
Step 3: pull trigger

 

[JMayo]

UBR 2021 through my NF 15 -55
It's either 2 or 300 i can't remember

 

[chkunz]

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UBR 2021 through my NF 15 -55

How can you deal with that?
I see all of these winning tiny benchrest groups published, how is that possible?

 

[BoydAllen]

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UBR 2021 through my NF 15 -55

Distance?

 

[chkunz]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/254063299120
If someone wants to throw a couple of bucks at the problem. Lol!

Thanks for the link to the yellow filters that are available; I tried my yellow (gold) shooting glasses and that may have helped slightly but I have now decided that my problem is with cataracts and is a much bigger problem than what someone with normal eyesight has to deal with. I will have to do my benchrest load development on overcast days until I can get eye surgery. Best wishes, Clyde

 

[JMayo]

How can you deal with that?
I see all of these winning tiny benchrest groups published, how is that possible?

This was a score match & I didn't that match ! Smdh lmbo ! I sucked !
Allot were saying "can't hit what you can't see" i got a zero on one because i didn't shoot it ... Couldn't tell. I Didn't turn down my scope.
After shooting a 6x scope for Hunter class this year i think I'll do better with the 15x55 turned down in the future.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Thanks for the link to the yellow filters that are available; I tried my yellow (gold) shooting glasses and that may have helped slightly but I have now decided that my problem is with cataracts and is a much bigger problem than what someone with normal eyesight has to deal with. I will have to do my benchrest load development on overcast days until I can get eye surgery. Best wishes, Clyde

Sir, I was just making a joke out of those cheap caps. I have no idea of there quality.

 

[Will Henry]

Previously I mentioned what I call still air mirage. This is light defraction which is practically unreadable and which can displace the target image as much as 1 moa. This occurs on rare occasions when the air is virtually still and cool. The defraction occurs when layers of different temperature air just lay there and undulate just a little. The effect is much like you would see looking through water, but not as pronounced.
I have watched as the target image, perfectly clear, would shimmer then re-appear a half minute high or low or whatever. A lot of the different layers of air were the result of hot gases from the rifles, or so it appeared to me. I set up a spare 24 on a tripod and watched as the target moved around and shooters gnashed their teeth when they shot a .6 in dead calm conditions. WH

 

[chkunz]

Sir, I was just making a joke out of those cheap caps. I have no idea of there quality.

Well sometimes you do not know what will work unless you try it.
Anyway, thanks for the response.

 

[gcabrera]

Previously I mentioned what I call still air mirage. This is light defraction which is practically unreadable and which can displace the target image as much as 1 moa. This occurs on rare occasions when the air is virtually still and cool. The defraction occurs when layers of different temperature air just lay there and undulate just a little. The effect is much like you would see looking through water, but not as pronounced.
I have watched as the target image, perfectly clear, would shimmer then re-appear a half minute high or low or whatever. A lot of the different layers of air were the result of hot gases from the rifles, or so it appeared to me. I set up a spare 24 on a tripod and watched as the target moved around and shooters gnashed their teeth when they shot a .6 in dead calm conditions. WH

Very interesting couple of posts.
We can never learn enough on mirage.
Thanks for sharing.

George