Favorite Shooting Conditions?

[CJ6]

Morning, lite overcast, 50-80 temps, 0-10 winds out of the north (90 degrees to firing line).

 

[Dgd6mm]

Low Humidity.

 

[McGrew]

Best time to shoot? October through April…. I live in the South, and when the temps and humidity are both in the 90’s it is pretty
Miserable. But I still do it! Danny

 

[drover]

I really like shooting when it is about 60-65 degrees F. with a light rain. With a light rain you can see any any wind movement at all, sort of like the whole atmosphere is your windflag.

I am in the Boyer camp of "the wind is my friend". When it is a windy day a great many of the competitors beat themselves mentally because of the wind blowing, I love hearing someone I am competing against say something like "I hate shooting in the wind".

drover

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

Depends on what I am trying to accomplish on that day. If it is load work up, no wind can be a good thing. If I am getting trigger time and practicing for a match and or teaching myself about shooting in the wind you then need some wind. No pat answer really sometimes you need the wind and some times you don't.

Roland

I like to check the wind forecast and then use that to plan whether I’m load developing or practicing shooting in the wind on a given day.

 

[JFrank]

I like my life hard’ I shoot in the rain or snow and sometimes down to zero degrees’ still can’t keep up with @tom he's the man.

 

[topclass2017]

Favorite shooting conditions? The ambient conditions whenever I am fortunate to get to the range.

When I lived in Western Washington I had a high master silhouette shooter tell me one time to shoot local matches at as many different ranges as I could and from different starting positions on the line. By either practicing or competing in a multitude of conditions, whatever conditions I ran into would not be a big deal if I'd "experienced it all." I shot more than one silhouette match where the weather went from rain to sleet to hail to snow to sunshine over the course of a few hours. And sometimes any combination of those conditions from one end of the line to the other.

 

[SilhouetteShooter]

I like to shoot very early in the morning, but prefer to shoot last hour or so of the day.
It’s calm, but mostly because no one is there.

 

[rlporter507]

I recently visited NM and Colorado. Some major wind during the day. So, in the am is it calm for a few hours?

no, my favorite time is when its light enough to start shooting till its to dark to shoot.