Anyone ever thought about taking grid paper and taping them together on one side to make their own ballistic chart. You would have to use a lot of sheets of it but believe it would work great. Use the horizontal lines as inches of drop and vertical lines as 25 yard increments. I am in the process of doing this using on one particular handload so my data on the gun will never change. Shoot every hundred yards out to a thousand and going off the chart it will tell me how much drop for every 25 yards. Doing this because I have not had much luck with any ballistic calculator. They give me a ballpark figure and is close but not perfect. I would not want to take a real life shot that is based on a program or calculator. LET ME HAVE SOME INFO ON WHAT YOU GUYS THINK.
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- Thread starter spsvarmint308
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Re: BALLISTICS FOR REDNECKS
You are looking to plot your real world data onto graph paper. Of course it will work, but you will be missing a bunch of data. Yes ballistic software can be a pain, as there are other variables that are not consistent. Here are a couple of things that help me.
I keep a shooting log, no need to pay too much money. I got a small three ring binder from the dollar store, then made cards from this free resource http://www.shootingvoodoo.com/index.php/library/data_book_pages/reference_sheets/
You can make a card for each shooting scenario, distance etc.
Next, I take the info and then enter it into this free program http://www.ballisticsimulator.com/
With my zero set correctly at 100y, I then tweak the velocity until my drop is consistent with real world at 300Y. The two variables I use to verify are the drop in inches, and the amount of elevation in mils.
After the tweak, you then have a darn accurate drop chart.
If you must use the graph idea, then record your data, then enter the x/y data into excel or other math/graphing software and it will print out a usable chart.
You are looking to plot your real world data onto graph paper. Of course it will work, but you will be missing a bunch of data. Yes ballistic software can be a pain, as there are other variables that are not consistent. Here are a couple of things that help me.
I keep a shooting log, no need to pay too much money. I got a small three ring binder from the dollar store, then made cards from this free resource http://www.shootingvoodoo.com/index.php/library/data_book_pages/reference_sheets/
You can make a card for each shooting scenario, distance etc.
Next, I take the info and then enter it into this free program http://www.ballisticsimulator.com/
With my zero set correctly at 100y, I then tweak the velocity until my drop is consistent with real world at 300Y. The two variables I use to verify are the drop in inches, and the amount of elevation in mils.
After the tweak, you then have a darn accurate drop chart.
If you must use the graph idea, then record your data, then enter the x/y data into excel or other math/graphing software and it will print out a usable chart.
Re: BALLISTICS FOR REDNECKS
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...so my data on the gun will never change.</div></div>
A bit of experience may reveal to you that external conditions - expecially temperature and barometric pressure (including altitude) - will cause significant deviations in the data from whatever set of conditions in which you acquired them.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...so my data on the gun will never change.</div></div>
A bit of experience may reveal to you that external conditions - expecially temperature and barometric pressure (including altitude) - will cause significant deviations in the data from whatever set of conditions in which you acquired them.
Re: BALLISTICS FOR REDNECKS
I have done the same thing you have. i glued some tan canvas over it to camo it. looks pretty good. keep an account of shots fired. weather for the day. barometric pressure wind and so forth.
I have done the same thing you have. i glued some tan canvas over it to camo it. looks pretty good. keep an account of shots fired. weather for the day. barometric pressure wind and so forth.
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Sounds like a good idea but you sure do hope to get off a lot of absolutely perfect shots to create that chart. The more we use JBM and put it to actual distances when you get all the date entered correctly it's been nearly perfect for us.
Ya got to get the right input to get the correct output though.
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Sounds like a good idea but you sure do hope to get off a lot of absolutely perfect shots to create that chart. The more we use JBM and put it to actual distances when you get all the date entered correctly it's been nearly perfect for us.
Ya got to get the right input to get the correct output though.
Topstrap
Re: BALLISTICS FOR REDNECKS
Get a Kestrel and learn how to use it. Then fine tune your ballistic calculator to your real world data. Do that at like 300, 600, and 800 or however far you can and you'll save yourself a shitload of time and have info that you can use regardless of changes in conditions.
Get a Kestrel and learn how to use it. Then fine tune your ballistic calculator to your real world data. Do that at like 300, 600, and 800 or however far you can and you'll save yourself a shitload of time and have info that you can use regardless of changes in conditions.
Re: BALLISTICS FOR REDNECKS
This is about as simple as you can get after you have some ballistic data.
Field Density Altitude Compensator (FDAC)
www.actsvirginia.com/sliderule.php
This is about as simple as you can get after you have some ballistic data.
Field Density Altitude Compensator (FDAC)
www.actsvirginia.com/sliderule.php
Re: BALLISTICS FOR REDNECKS
I think YOU and atmospheric/climatic conditions will introduce more variable than a graph paper will take out. When I say you, I am referring to you as the trigger puller and potentially the reloader. I admire your willingness to try to noodle the problem and I suspect you will find that the nut behind the bolt is more often than not the primary problem with the bullet not doing what we want it to do but more likely doing what we made it do. Jacob form RO has a quote and I am paraphrasing it, at the end of the day believe the bullet.
I think YOU and atmospheric/climatic conditions will introduce more variable than a graph paper will take out. When I say you, I am referring to you as the trigger puller and potentially the reloader. I admire your willingness to try to noodle the problem and I suspect you will find that the nut behind the bolt is more often than not the primary problem with the bullet not doing what we want it to do but more likely doing what we made it do. Jacob form RO has a quote and I am paraphrasing it, at the end of the day believe the bullet.
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