Subj : Carry Pistols
To   : MOONDOG
From : Cougar428
Date : Fri Feb 10 2023 12:24 pm

-=> Quoting Moondog to Cougar428 <=-

 Mo> I've seen some of air rifle videos where the farmers have too many
 Mo> starlings or sparrows, and they thin out the herd.  The scope cam
 Mo> footage is interestin because they factor in wind drift and the amount
 Mo> of drop at the distance they are shooting.  The crosshairs air used for
 Mo> wind value and a range finder is used to determine loss of energy and
 Mo> drop. 

 Mo> I heard of a budget version of precision rifle where they use rimfires
 Mo> rather than centerfire cartridges.  Instead of needing a 1000
 Mo> yardrange, they shoot .22 rimfire at 300 yards.  With standard velocity
 Mo> rounds its nearly a rainbow trajectory reaching out to 300 yards.  One
 Mo> time I tried to take a shot at awoo  dchuck whose hole was 185 yards
 Mo> from the barn.  Witht eh ballistics program I  was using, I had to
 Mo> factor in several feet of holdover to lob the bullet in.  I missed by 2
 Mo> inches, then after that the woodchuck ran for his hole any time to back
 Mo> door on the house was opened.  I couldn't safely shoot it with a .223
 Mo> because of the proximity of the neighbors' house. 

In some of the pest videos like the one below: 

	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM9SFp_muT4&t=444s

I can't tell from the optics about windage and such, but these are
pretty close range shots and it looks like (from the footage) that
the person shooting is pretty accurate.

Cougar


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