Waterline your Plates

[Lowlight]

Putting a waterline on the plates to give you point of aim, point of impact

Something to shoot for, in this case, The Line

 

[Baron23]

Putting a waterline on the plates to give you point of aim, point of impact

Something to shoot for, in this case, The Line

Thanks Frank....my cousin and I have been doing this on the steel at his club at 500 meters (547 yards) which is the longest I have easily available to me in my neck of the woods. They have a ram out there and we pretty always paint a water line to validate/correct our dope/true our BCs at that range. Not being expert wind readers (or even apprentice wind readers lol), we also put a small vertical line on and get an initial gauge of the wind effect.

What I found surprising is how many long time members of this club were pleased and surprised by how much they liked what this brought to the table and wondered why they hadn't thought of it themselves and we have been asked to go down and repaint during the day.

Hope all is well with you and yours....cheers.

 

[aprocast]

Why handicap your self with a line, just make a precise aiming mark

 

[Aftermath]

Why handicap your self with a line, just make a precise aiming mark

ERRYbody knows real snipers ony take head shots

 

[Lowlight]

Why handicap your self with a line, just make a precise aiming mark

Clearly a guy who never shoots in the wind

 

[Holliday]

Makes good sense!

 

[aprocast]

Clearly a guy who never shoots in the wind

On the contrary it blows all the time here, but my scopes all have this funny crossbar thing with hash marks on it

 

[Lowlight]

So in your mind a dot is better than a stripe / line

seems like the same effort

 

[Taylorbok]

Last year I was spotting for a kid (12 ish y/o) trying to get him on IPSC at 750 ish yards with a 223 gas gun.
we got the gun dialed in and let him shoot, he kept missing just high, took us a while to figure out he was trying to shoot it in the head.

 

[lash]

On the contrary it blows all the time here, but my scopes all have this funny crossbar thing with hash marks on it

If you are the only person that ever shoots at your target, do whatever blows your skirt up. When I’m spotting for someone who’s trying to develop good dope, a waterline all the way across the plate helps much more than a dot.

 

[aprocast]

So in your mind a dot is better than a stripe / line

seems like the same effort

You are half way there with a waterline, you have a precise reference point for elevation, a dot gives you a precise reference point for windage as well to use the horizontal hash marks against

 

[Taylorbok]

You are half way there with a waterline, you have a precise reference point for elevation, a dot gives you a precise reference point for windage as well to use the horizontal hash marks against

Personally, I don't usually aim center, I like to safe side the plate.

If the wind is inconsistent I'll use my low wind call on the upwind side of the plate so if there's a gust I've got a better chance of catching the down wind side and if the call is good I'll still catch the upwind side.

 

[aprocast]

Personally, I don't usually aim center, I like to safe side the plate.

If the wind is inconsistent I'll use my low wind call on the upwind side of the plate so if there's a gust I've got a better chance of catching the down wind side and if the call is good I'll still catch the upwind side.

If you can hold on the plate for hits it isn’t windy

3 shots at 1100 yards with a 223 holding 4 minutes of wind on the crosswire

 

[Taylorbok]

If you can hold on the plate for hits it isn’t windy View attachment 86733573 shots at 1100 yards with a 223 holding 4 minutes of wind on the crosswire

Either you didn’t read what I wrote or you don’t understand shooting in the wind.