Taking PCPs + Tank up to 16,000 ft — Any advice for my shooting adventure❓️

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Don't forget that the air density at 5000 metres will only be about 60% of what it is at sea level, so your pellets will fly as if you have a BC 67% higher. The BC will not change much, but it will appear as if it has. The gyroscopic stability will also be a lot higher.
 
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Ballisticboy said:
Don't forget that the air density at 5000 metres will only be about 60% of what it is at sea level, so your pellets will fly as if you have a BC 67% higher. The BC will not change much, but it will appear as if it has. The gyroscopic stability will also be a lot higher.
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➠ Well, I'm going to like that — pellets pretending aerodynamically to be slugs....! 😄

And airgun slugs pretending to be Creedmoor's...! (well, not quite 😉)

Matthias
 
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qball said:
Bring some paper targets/plates so you can re-zero and recalculate your DOPE.
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Will do.
Though, I think, if I enter the atmospheric conditions accurately into Strelok, major re-zeroing shouldn't be necessary, or.....?


Of course, on second thought — going through one hairpin turn after another, with one or two thousand feet drop-offs to the side, hours of riding bumpy single-track mountain trails, fighting through potholes and over fallen rocks — well, maybe a rezero will be necessary..... 😆

However, fxorgive me, I'm not taking any gun with a drinking straw barrel 😜 — so.... — maybe the Prophet will handle this terrain just fine....! 😄

Matthias
 
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JungleShooter said:
.... I have to work, too, you know....!
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sucker :)
I retired from engineering earlier this year ;)
and sitting at home alone all day just killed my brain, until the snow melted in mid April...
couple weeks later in May my family pushed me to accept a part time job in HD = retail...
now I can talk to people all day long, but oh man.... can't wait to retire ;(
 
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bigHUN said:
Can't wait to retire ;(
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Well, take a break for your part-time job and come down to Peru for a few weeks! 😄


🔺 Seriously, if I can help anybody plan a trip to Peru, I'll gladly do it. 👍🏼
➠ The beauty of the country is breathtaking, it's incredible variation is stunning, the food is the best in the world (they just voted again on the best restaurants, and yeah, Peru is way up there).

Matthias
 
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HogKiller said:
Let me give you one more clue, take a lot of TUMS with you, it'll help with altitude sickness. Oh and wear eye protection, for the UV rays. enjoy. I've been up on Mauna Loa and the air is a touch thin up there you're going higher yet by 4,000 ft.
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Very cool, Mauna Loa, I looked it up online. 👍🏼

Yeah, I'll load up on altitude sickness pills, don't want to spoil the trip with dropping my cookies (or more likely, dropping my roasted guinea pig lunch, that's a specialty here).


Thanks for the eye protection advice — I didn't think about that at all!! 👍🏼

Matthias
 
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JungleShooter said:
Very cool, Mauna Loa, I looked it up online. 👍🏼

Yeah, I'll load up on altitude sickness pills, don't want to spoil the trip with dropping my cookies (or more likely, dropping my roasted guinea pig lunch, that's a specialty here).


Thanks for the eye protection advice — I didn't think about that at all!! 👍🏼

Matthias
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Your Welcome found out about the Tums, calcium when we were on the N. Rim of the Grand Canyon, the Mrs. got altitude sickness and a ...here's the interesting part, guy at the front desk had happened to work for the same company I did, recommended it, fixed her right up. Good luck on acclimating it's going to take a while, I always got a hell of a headache if I stayed up there for too long.
 
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JungleShooter said:
Will do.
Though, I think, if I enter the atmospheric conditions accurately into Strelok, major re-zeroing shouldn't be necessary, or.....?


Of course, on second thought — going through one hairpin turn after another, with one or two thousand feet drop-offs to the side, hours of riding bumpy single-track mountain trails, fighting through potholes and over fallen rocks — well, maybe a rezero will be necessary..... 😆

However, fxorgive me, I'm not taking any gun with a drinking straw barrel 😜 — so.... — maybe the Prophet will handle this terrain just fine....! 😄

Matthias
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Always just in case, if you know how to use strelok correctly then you should not need to rezero at all. But I like to validate things when this big of change occurs.
 
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JungleShooter said:
Very cool, Mauna Loa, I looked it up online. 👍🏼

Yeah, I'll load up on altitude sickness pills, don't want to spoil the trip with dropping my cookies (or more likely, dropping my roasted guinea pig lunch, that's a specialty here).


Thanks for the eye protection advice — I didn't think about that at all!! 👍🏼

Matthias
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Don't forget a good boony hat and your SPF 99 sun screen.
 
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