I agree 100% if you have a dedicated scope and rifle and when I get an open gun I will probably do that.
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Holdover labeled on Parallax Wheel vs. yardage
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Jon
I’ve only shot in 3 tournaments myself. All 3 being Grand Prix events. First one I used hold over marks only and had no issue, but wanting to be more consistent until I get a larger wheel, I have went with a metric self adhesive tape measure on my parallax wheel. With the millimeter marking on the tape measure I now can get the 50-55 yardages no problem. My range card has the millimeter number, yardage, and then the holdover. Works great. Scope is a Falcon X50. Substituted it in place of my Sightron, because the Falcon reticle has more holdover marks.
Keith
Keith
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Have found having a range distance number ( no mater if correct or not for others viewing ) it only need match a D.O.P.E. sheet that places pellet at POA.
Splitting distances and required hold happen very easily when viewing your D.O.P.E. card and if unsure of a fractional/split yardage? just make it all fit within KZ as it equates to a knocked down target !!
Enjoy your FT journey
Splitting distances and required hold happen very easily when viewing your D.O.P.E. card and if unsure of a fractional/split yardage? just make it all fit within KZ as it equates to a knocked down target !!
Enjoy your FT journey
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I agree with Airgunoregon. Why waste time with a dope sheet, and why move your head around? I can focus on the KZ and by closing my right eye, see my holdover on the wheel with my left. Open my right eye and I'm still on the target. No need to reorient my head and swing my barrel around to find the target and kill zone.
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A lot of great ideas here on ways folks are doing this. There will always be multiple ways to do something, and never really a "BEST WAY". The best way is what works for you in the end. This shooting sport, along with golf, archery, etc. to be consistent requires a routine. To me, developing a solid routine that works and becomes muscle memory is more important. I want to be able to do the exact same routine without having to think about it every time, beginning with addressing the lane.
I've only shot 3 Grand Prix matches of any kind to this point, so while I'm wanting to shoot with as many folks as I can, I'm only competing against myself at this point.
I've only shot 3 Grand Prix matches of any kind to this point, so while I'm wanting to shoot with as many folks as I can, I'm only competing against myself at this point.
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Yardage is definitive and doesn’t change but the holdover can. I just raised my scope on my Dreamline so the holdover is completely off and will have to redo my scope wheel if I marked my wheel with hold over.
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What Qball said. Yardage is a constant. Temperature shift, scope height, and other factors are variables that affect holdover.
As far as being worried about giving your competitors information if they happen to see the yardage your scope is revealing; if you gave everyone the exact yardage as measured with a steel tape, the top hands are still going to win and the others will still score within a point or two of where they would have without that information.
Podna
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Most likely correct.
What is so telling that i have personally come to think & feel is seeing face plates POST match, is that a lot are just not that steady when there breaking shots.
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I wish people would look at my scope wheel while I'm shooting. In fact, I encourage it. Why should I be the only one suffering through mis-ranging targets?
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100% agree. On a typical 3/8" KZ at 10 yards there will be a 1.5" circle of shots all around the kz! And on a 1.5" kz at 50-55 yards the circle of misses will be 3 " across!!! And what's worse, there will be random shots way down in the target base or way out on the edges of the faceplate. Makes a guy shake their head wondering how somebody could miss THAT bad. Personally I agree that a large % of misses are simple unsteadiness + brain farts (wrong holdovers/clicks), and not the wind, or misranged targets, or any of the other plethora of common excuses we all use.
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Or springers.
Although, sometimes missing is better than hitting. Today I hit a reducer so hard, I apparently knocked it off the target and the target had to be thrown out. The result of that was me moving into a tie for first. Granted, if I would have just hit the target it would have been the same result, but sometimes it's more fun to be an agent of chaos.
And to my esteemed opponent that hit the target twice, all I can say is: sometimes good things happen to bad people. And never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Or springers. Probably springers.
Although, sometimes missing is better than hitting. Today I hit a reducer so hard, I apparently knocked it off the target and the target had to be thrown out. The result of that was me moving into a tie for first. Granted, if I would have just hit the target it would have been the same result, but sometimes it's more fun to be an agent of chaos.
And to my esteemed opponent that hit the target twice, all I can say is: sometimes good things happen to bad people. And never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
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