I was wondering if the experts would care to share any secret techniques that they may have for us newbs when it comes to combating the dreaded enemy, Mirage. As I'm still learning, the techniques that I use are to back off on my power until the mirage is minimal (or until I'm at the absolute lowest power setting, whichever comes first), readjust the parallax, try to be as precise as possible in keeping the exact same POA, and shooting position as possible. Thoughts, opinions? What am I doing right/wrong?
EDIT: I guess I should explain the primary event that spawned this question/thread. I was recently shooting with remau308 and lal357 (both great guys and both thoroughly destroyed me). We were at the home range of lal357. The weather was nice, temp mid to high 70's, clear sky, lots of sunshine. The range is about 90% grass. At the feet of the targets, grey stone has been spread in what appears to be an effort to cover an area that turns to red mud when wet (lal357 could correct me if I'm wrong). Anyway, there is a fairly large area covered by this grey stone that runs the length of the target line and is approximately 10 yards wide. This stone was just soaking up the sunlight and creating a ton of mirage (visible with the naked eye from 300 yards) just in front of the targets while the mirage was at 0 for the rest of the entire distance. Hope that helps.
PS, I try to search everything I can before posting a thread asking newb type questions. However, the answers aren't always right there to be found without weeding through hundreds of posts for hours on end. So, sometimes I feel like it may be beneficial to myself as well as many others to ask the most basic/simple questions in order to get precise/accurate answers. Also, I keep seeing over and over again where posters tell other posters to go to the range and ask questions to the more experienced shooters. Well, that's exactly what I'm doing here, albeit the range is removed. Thanks so much to all of those who do participate and provide good responses, even those that aren't so blunt but are indeed informative yet thought provoking.
EDIT: I guess I should explain the primary event that spawned this question/thread. I was recently shooting with remau308 and lal357 (both great guys and both thoroughly destroyed me). We were at the home range of lal357. The weather was nice, temp mid to high 70's, clear sky, lots of sunshine. The range is about 90% grass. At the feet of the targets, grey stone has been spread in what appears to be an effort to cover an area that turns to red mud when wet (lal357 could correct me if I'm wrong). Anyway, there is a fairly large area covered by this grey stone that runs the length of the target line and is approximately 10 yards wide. This stone was just soaking up the sunlight and creating a ton of mirage (visible with the naked eye from 300 yards) just in front of the targets while the mirage was at 0 for the rest of the entire distance. Hope that helps.
PS, I try to search everything I can before posting a thread asking newb type questions. However, the answers aren't always right there to be found without weeding through hundreds of posts for hours on end. So, sometimes I feel like it may be beneficial to myself as well as many others to ask the most basic/simple questions in order to get precise/accurate answers. Also, I keep seeing over and over again where posters tell other posters to go to the range and ask questions to the more experienced shooters. Well, that's exactly what I'm doing here, albeit the range is removed. Thanks so much to all of those who do participate and provide good responses, even those that aren't so blunt but are indeed informative yet thought provoking.
