Wind Calls | Todd Hodnett from Accuracy 1st

Todd Hodnett, the founder of Accuracy 1st, talks about wind calls - covering some of the frequently asked questions and how to adequately capture your wind and use it to your advantage within your Kestrel®.
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[@psmith535]

Smart man. Great teacher. Unique individual. Mighty intelligence.

[@cornydad]

Many giys in high school - I dont need to know all this math. Ill never use it the rest of my life. Guys after getting into long range shooting - I woshed i oiad better attention in math class.

[@w.harrison7277]

Didn't understand a word of it. This is a paragliding tutorial, right?

[@KestrelBallistics]

This is for long range shooting

[@haraldweiss8487]

The kestrel is a great device and I use often, but you can only measure the wind where you are the wind on the flightpath you can only calculate with your own experience. That’s it. Everything else is nonsense.

[@saradamsmc]

Todd Hodnett is such a wealth of knowledge and someone very generous with sharing it

[@elshootiboi1861]

This short has changed my entire mindset about wind calls.

[@charlesludwig9173]

Good first round hits are essential to wins in EIC competition so maybe a Kestrel is a good idea but, not having one, what I do is read mid-range wind by its effect on environment, use spotting scope to appraise wind direction, then put wind value into MOA wind constant formula. So far, it's been a winning strategy, that's to say, I am not losing points due to shot misplacement from bad wind calls. I learned this means to counter wind from USAMU instruction. At any rate, yeah, sometimes all that can be gleaned about the wind is what it is doing at the shooters firing point and that might be alien to what's going on down range. That's why I orient my direction of fire to a compass and take a wind/weather report of my geographic area from my cell phone. That sometimes helps to get the job done. So, for the most part, my only problem with wind is in Long-Range Service Rifle Division Competition, the difficult to read 1-3 mph wind changes which destroy X-Ring hit probability. I have not yet discovered a strategy to deal with that.

[@theaccountant5133]

I find that you MUST hold the Kestrel, after calibration, perfectly vertical to get a good magnetic heading that matches a compass. I understand that if the Kestrel magnetic compass is off 10 degrees in heading then the wind call will be off by the same amount and 10 degrees is not going to change the other factors by much. Just a note here.

[@thomasteac8919]

There’s a term for that... I think it’s called Kentucky wind call?

[@jackjack5154]

Good info here, can also get the general value of the wind by letting the kestrel bummy cord hang and seeing where the wind blows it

[@CorpusCrispy]

Where to you begin study to learn how air flows over terrain? Fluid dynamics?

[@bck6608]

Weather/ aerodynamics/ you can formulate the approximate wind speed due to Temp of air, relative humidity, the height above sea level you are firing from. The higher above sea level you are the less resistance your projectile will receive however if you are firing a projectile at Sea level somewhere like Florida for your projectile will be anywhere from 200 fps slower too 500 fps slower humudity, temperature of air and so on.

[@gunblasterr]

😂 its called shoot and correct

[@Shooter2medic]

Man I wish I could have attended the last webinar you are did with Todd!

[@KestrelBallistics]

Stay tuned there will be more.

[@ToughCowboy]

@@KestrelBallistics when will be next webinar?

[@germanyvids9836]

Get a wind vane to see the wind direction

[@alexmason1387]

Yeah, What he said.

[@TexasTrained]

Good to know

[@kenebene139]

God among men.

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