Love that place and Jackie and all the regulars. It can be tough and it has very good moments, too. Been a while since we had a cf night shoot there. Might try to talk Jackie into doing one this year, if he's up for it. Led's have made it a lot more plausible than it used to be.A 6 card night tournament at buckcreek gives a person the effect of it. Match starts at 6pm and usually ends right after midnight. Clear with wind, water vapor, fog and possibly a 30 degree temperature swing. By the last cards you better be sure your aiming at what you think you are.
Todd
This is rimfire.Aside from the wind or visibility issues how do you compensate for lower to higher humidity? Adjust seating depth or powder? For powder do you add more or less to your standard load when humidity increases or decreases?
Bench Rest shooters add more powder normally when the day wears on and humidity begins to burn off according to Jack Neary.Aside from the wind or visibility issues how do you compensate for lower to higher humidity? Adjust seating depth or powder? For powder do you add more or less to your standard load when humidity increases or decreases?
Please accept my apologies for my post about CF. I should have read the OP.This is rimfire.
Me too but same, same.Please accept my apologies for my post about CF. I should have read the OP.
My experience is the complete opposite. Dry hot days make for bad mirage, think about the desert. When humidity rises, the mirage goes away.With humidity comes mirage and the target dances. It is hard to find a consistent firing point hence poorer accuracy. Happens to me with centerfire guns at long ranges like 1000 yards.
David
Watch the Brian Litz and Erik Cortina podcast mentioned above, Brian covers that very topic in it....If humidity negatively affects accuracy, it must cause all rounds to somehow fly less accurately to the target. The alternative is that humidity affects only some rounds in a box, but not all.
Is there reliable, quality evidence about the relationship between higher or lower humidity levels on ammo performance?
A hint at what they say about .22LR performance and humidity might be useful.Watch the Brian Litz and Erik Cortina podcast mentioned above, Brian covers that very topic in it....
Maybe humidity is different in the desert areas, i can’t say but where i live in North Carolina it is like soup. I remember one match in April, it started out muggy and by 10 for the last match we just dripped. This is a 100 yard rimfire match. That bull would just dance around as a breeze would pick up. I lost 4 points on that bull. Never did see the rings of the target and just shot center mass and hoped. Other days it is lower humidity and there is no to low mirage and it is not an issue.My experience is the complete opposite. Dry hot days make for bad mirage, think about the desert. When humidity rises, the mirage goes away.
With that said, humidity can bring other visibility issues. Vapor increases with higher humidity, which can cause fog and hazy conditions. But I'd rather shoot in haze than mirage, as long as I can still see the target.