I headed out nice and early to one of my favorite ELR shooting spots in hopes of catching a nice calm morning to shoot in.
Half way up the mountain I could see that wasn't going to happen. By the time I made it to the end of my 40 minute drive the wind was howling. I got out of my rig just shaking my head and almost laughing.
I was about to get back in and head home but I thought to myself, these next gen Corbin slugs have been pretty amazing. If nothing else, I should a least try since I'm already up here and hopefully learn a thing or two from it. So I did.
This is how it looked when I first got there and set up.
I dialed the Ravin to the appropriate MOA and started sending. It took me few shots before I could see my first impact. I had to back the magnification off to get a larger sight picture because the impacts were blown so far over to the right. All I needed was to see one and it was game on!
After that it was only a matter of chasing the wind with hold off adjustments from shot to shot.
Unfortunately, I left my good tripod at someone's house and had to use a cheap Goodwill special instead. This made for some poor video quality because the wind was shaking the spotting scope which was also messing with the focus. You may have to zoom in a little to see some of the impacts.
The wind did settle down some but it was still far from calm as you can see and hear in the video.
This is how the wind ended up during most of the shooting.
One of the interesting things about ELR is some of the wind characteristics of different areas. Sometimes what looks like calm conditions can be worse than a steady and consistent wind.
What looks calm can mean that the wind is very subtle but can't make up it's mind on what direction it wants to go. At ELR distances this can drive you crazy. Where as if there is a steady breeze in one direction at a consistent speed you can " lean" on it and produce some good shooting.
Half way up the mountain I could see that wasn't going to happen. By the time I made it to the end of my 40 minute drive the wind was howling. I got out of my rig just shaking my head and almost laughing.
I was about to get back in and head home but I thought to myself, these next gen Corbin slugs have been pretty amazing. If nothing else, I should a least try since I'm already up here and hopefully learn a thing or two from it. So I did.
This is how it looked when I first got there and set up.
I dialed the Ravin to the appropriate MOA and started sending. It took me few shots before I could see my first impact. I had to back the magnification off to get a larger sight picture because the impacts were blown so far over to the right. All I needed was to see one and it was game on!
After that it was only a matter of chasing the wind with hold off adjustments from shot to shot.
Unfortunately, I left my good tripod at someone's house and had to use a cheap Goodwill special instead. This made for some poor video quality because the wind was shaking the spotting scope which was also messing with the focus. You may have to zoom in a little to see some of the impacts.
The wind did settle down some but it was still far from calm as you can see and hear in the video.
This is how the wind ended up during most of the shooting.
What looks calm can mean that the wind is very subtle but can't make up it's mind on what direction it wants to go. At ELR distances this can drive you crazy. Where as if there is a steady breeze in one direction at a consistent speed you can " lean" on it and produce some good shooting.
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