Hi all,
I posted Hornady's podcast #50 on the reloading forum but this one definitely belongs here.
They just released Podcast #51 today and as promised they do a deep dive into the 4DOF app, I've been using 4DOF for almost a year and I learned a lot from the podcast, not just about how the app works, but more about the finer points and all the tips and tricks available that will help to make better prediction. More were tailored for PRS, but also for hunting.
For example: Stupid me, I had never used the range card feature. Invaluable! You can create multiple range cards one for each Match station the night before and be ready to go. All you need to enter before shooting is the wind.
OR, you can range a bunch of different points with a rangefinder from a particular hunting vantage point and create different named cards, like "Rock left" or Big Tree Right" cards with all the shot data for each of those aim points.
And also prediction "checks", meaning, and this goes back to reloading and absolute great zeros, when you are missing shots at long range, and think "something is wrong with the damn app", you actually have ways to quickly test the app to see if it's working inside the parameters of the information you put in it! Even down to whether you're entered the wrong wind correction...
Here's the link - again I advise caffeine to keep the attention span up and the ZZZs to a minimum, and also it's a show to watch, not listen too. Graphics intensive.
I posted Hornady's podcast #50 on the reloading forum but this one definitely belongs here.
They just released Podcast #51 today and as promised they do a deep dive into the 4DOF app, I've been using 4DOF for almost a year and I learned a lot from the podcast, not just about how the app works, but more about the finer points and all the tips and tricks available that will help to make better prediction. More were tailored for PRS, but also for hunting.
For example: Stupid me, I had never used the range card feature. Invaluable! You can create multiple range cards one for each Match station the night before and be ready to go. All you need to enter before shooting is the wind.
OR, you can range a bunch of different points with a rangefinder from a particular hunting vantage point and create different named cards, like "Rock left" or Big Tree Right" cards with all the shot data for each of those aim points.
And also prediction "checks", meaning, and this goes back to reloading and absolute great zeros, when you are missing shots at long range, and think "something is wrong with the damn app", you actually have ways to quickly test the app to see if it's working inside the parameters of the information you put in it! Even down to whether you're entered the wrong wind correction...
Here's the link - again I advise caffeine to keep the attention span up and the ZZZs to a minimum, and also it's a show to watch, not listen too. Graphics intensive.
