I have a wind question that has been irritating me at my regular shooting area. We consistently get 5-10 mph winds from 3 different directions at one of the targets: a 5 o’clock wind for the 1st third of the bullet flight, 7 o’clock for the 2nd third and close to 9 o’clock for the last third.
I recently watched Emil Praslick's recent online wind class where he discussed the relative contributions of winds broken into thirds, but he didn’t give a specific example on how to adjust wind deflection dope when the direction changes drastically.
The picture I attached is for a target at 1200m. Regarding winds from opposite directions: If the wind influence over the final third of the flight path only contributes 10-12 percent of the overall wind influence (per Emil's wind class), would I take 10% of the last thirds deflection dope (adjusted for cosine) and subtract it from the aggregate from the first 2/3 dope?
Hopefully that description makes sense. I cannot wrap my head around the math here and the Kestrel doesn't let you divide up a flight path that way.
I recently watched Emil Praslick's recent online wind class where he discussed the relative contributions of winds broken into thirds, but he didn’t give a specific example on how to adjust wind deflection dope when the direction changes drastically.
The picture I attached is for a target at 1200m. Regarding winds from opposite directions: If the wind influence over the final third of the flight path only contributes 10-12 percent of the overall wind influence (per Emil's wind class), would I take 10% of the last thirds deflection dope (adjusted for cosine) and subtract it from the aggregate from the first 2/3 dope?
Hopefully that description makes sense. I cannot wrap my head around the math here and the Kestrel doesn't let you divide up a flight path that way.
