Trusting the spotter vs the condition

[Fairchaser]

Wind is the shooter’s nemesis and also his/her friend. But that friendship is a fickle one to be sure. We all have a plan until we get a nine or an eight.

How often do you adjust for the spotter but think you see a pickup or let off and make an adjustment only to get burned?

This begs the question of which do you trust more; the condition or the spotter? Obviously, chasing the spotter can burn you too. The best know how to do both. But how?

 

[mgdietrich]

Believing what the target tells you has saved me more points than trying to call the wind based on a guess. You need to be able to do a bit of both, but I always take a safety click on what the target result tells me at the very least.

 

[TylerFromMS]

If the condition burned you, you might be looking at the wrong thing.

 

[dc.fireman]

I always get burned in the let off.

 

[Aero]

The shot spotter never lies unless the guy in the pits put it in the wrong hole.

 

[Downhill]

I also look at neighboring targets that might appear as I'm ready to fire. If I know the shooter and his target rises as I am ready to fire, sometimes a change can be seen that was not present when I fired.

 

[JMayo]

Yeah my sighter tells me then i see the shift in flags and make my call .....
Burned so many times.... I've been 1st in the 249 collum most matches this year.

 

[clowdis]

Chasing the spotter at a range that has shifty winds (Butner) can burn you in a hurry. You need to learn to read wind if you're going to shoot long range and use a combination of spotter and wind reading to become a better shooter.

 

[boltman13]

IF you know the condition when you fired the shot you can trust the spotter. Then you can make an adjustment for the new condition you are firing in. Be sure you know that condition when you fire and you can continue that sequence thru out the string. Trust the spotter, it's there because of the condition that existed when the shot was fired. Adjusting to a different condition off a spotter that you are not positive of the condition it was fired in will have you chasing your tail thru out the string.

 

[DR_2297]

Fire the shot and make an honest call. Then immediately look in your spotting scope and see if the condition now is what it was when you decided to leave the sight adjustment where it was and pull the trigger. If so, and you are confident in your call and the spotter comes up where you said it should be then consider yourself synced. If not then either you were wrong or your execution and call not jive and you have a decision to make. If they do jive then adjust appropriately for your next shot based on the conditions at that time…

Biggest nemesis is in rapidly changing conditions where you can get lost trying to shooting in a consistent condition.

 

[Fairchaser]

Fire the shot and make an honest call. Then immediately look in your spotting scope and see if the condition now is what it was when you decided to leave the sight adjustment where it was and pull the trigger. If so, and you are confident in your call and the spotter comes up where you said it should be then consider yourself synced. If not then either you were wrong or your execution and call not jive and you have a decision to make. If they do jive then adjust appropriately for your next shot based on the conditions at that time…

Biggest nemesis is in rapidly changing conditions where you can get lost trying to shooting in a consistent condition.

I like the word synched. I will shoot and then if I’m synched, I will ask myself if the conditions are the same, more, or less. Then I will make an adjustment somewhere between or outside the previous point of aim and point of impact. Occasionally I will trust my judgement on the condition more than the spotter and get burned. The spotter was a better report than my judgment of the condition. Sometimes I will get it correct.