Kestrel printable data…and is “quick drop” a thing?

[sacklunch]

I can’t for the life of me find a way to display or print a drop chart from a kestrel w/AB. I only have the 3 gun version, not sure if that’s the problem.

Is there no way to plug in generic data the same as one would on the AB app?

Just looking for a way to tinker with numbers when bored/offline. Work on memorizing some drops, looking to find some sort of quick drop like type of correlation.

also,

I recently heard “quick drop” mentioned for the first time on a podcast recently…but a search didn’t net me any results. Is it called something else? The rough idea was a consistent correlation between yardage and come up with a fairly simple on the fly calc like -2 from first number in yardage and the last two numbers come after the decimal. Varies based on speeds and BC I’d assume, but wanted to read more about the theory….

 

[TheOfficeT-Rex]

This thread should get you started (clicky clicky).

 

[sacklunch]

A treasure trove, thanks dude

 

[sacklunch]

This thread should get you started (clicky clicky).

Not sure that the “weaponized math” is the quick drop I was referencing. Similar, but different. The quick drop was:

Take dust in yards, - 2 mil from the first digit, add a decimal behind and the next two numbers of yardage are now your tenths in mils. So 629 yards = U4.3

Correction factors for guns slower than 2500fps and faster than 2800fps are +\- .5 mil past 300 yards. So on a 2950fps rifle, at 629 yards, now it’s U3.8.

Seems to get me within .1-.2 mils and for quick math in the field in a hunting scenario, I can deal with that. May not be precise enough for others.

Was hoping to read some posts about it, see how folks have tinkered with those assumptions, etc, but I’ve only heard it on one podcast and the math was provided in the text description. Nothing on here or Google by the name “quick drop”.

I’m not a math in public kinda guy and I don’t carry notebooks in the field during a hunt…the weapon used math is no doubt more precise, but I probably can’t shoot the dif in .1m at 800 yards from my pack or an improvised rest in a pinch with an animal that may be moving/feeding…much prefer the TLAR (that looks about right) gets me in the vitals the fastest.

 

[TheOfficeT-Rex]

Not sure that the “weaponized math” is the quick drop I was referencing. Similar, but different. The quick drop was:

Take dust in yards, - 2 mil from the first digit, add a decimal behind and the next two numbers of yardage are now your tenths in mils. So 629 yards = U4.3

Correction factors for guns slower than 2500fps and faster than 2800fps are +\- .5 mil past 300 yards. So on a 2950fps rifle, at 629 yards, now it’s U3.8.

Seems to get me within .1-.2 mils and for quick math in the field in a hunting scenario, I can deal with that. May not be precise enough for others.

Was hoping to read some posts about it, see how folks have tinkered with those assumptions, etc, but I’ve only heard it on one podcast and the math was provided in the text description. Nothing on here or Google by the name “quick drop”.

I’m not a math in public kinda guy and I don’t carry notebooks in the field during a hunt…the weapon used math is no doubt more precise, but I probably can’t shoot the dif in .1m at 800 yards from my pack or an improvised rest in a pinch with an animal that may be moving/feeding…much prefer the TLAR (that looks about right) gets me in the vitals the fastest.

"Finding your speed drop factor" is literally the top update on the first post of that link.

 

[sacklunch]

"Finding your speed drop factor" is literally the top update on the first post of that link.

Sorry dude, that’s my bad…just a dumb old fighter pilot, I don’t do math and I leave calculators and equations to engineers. I stopped reading when I saw 15 pages describing what a shooter on a podcast summed up in 4 sentences.