Keith how often are you finding yourself ranging targets? I shoot all over oklahoma and a few texas matches and ive never had to range a target. Most match directors in the central region are verifying targets with a terrapin. That calypso device is very cool tech but i keep seeing shooters rely more on technology than simply just using your gut feeling and being confident in your wind call. Great content as always!
I was to a match this year where the match book stated that target ranges were plus or minus 100 yards. They weren't kidding. There are 2 local match directors who ALWAYS get EVERY range right. Fortunately for me, the others are learning from them.
@@LeftEdgePrecision I think it has more to do with the environment and equipment they have to work with. We all have learned that ranging back from the target to the shooting position is best. I think that point is part of how the exceptionally accurate MDs are improving the accuracy of the others.
Thanks for putting our straight to the point content. What are you using below your Calypso sensor that allows your wind ribbon to spin freely? I have a similar setup but have been unable to come up with a solution to that.
I just participated in my third precision match this weekend. Had a great time but I'm realizing I need a lot of gear. Do you think it's possible to start with the fury 5k ab as my primary ranging, spotting, and ballistics solver while saving up to get the kestrel?
That will work just fine, don't get caught up in what you think you have to buy right away. My local PRS club shoots at a range where the wind at the shooter is almost never the correct wind call (lots of topography), so I rarely use a kestrel for anything but density altitude anyway.
You don't need more gear, you need more skills. I see the gear race on this side of the atlantic too. There are shooters with babystrollers full of gear at the matches and when you look at them they look like a million bucks, but when the match is over and you try to find them in the result list... Don't get me wrong, stuff are fun, and I love to tinker with them. But the focus has to be on the shooting. It doesn't matter if you spend $10000 on rifles, bags, optics, tripods and all the other cool gear out there if you can't shoot. It's not a standard yet, but it should be. Before you have a Kraft Number below 2, all you should be thinking about is how to improve as a rifleman. I would argue that before you have obtained this level of skills it is a waste of time going to comps...
Would love a video on the wind sensor.
Outstanding
I need to see about goin with your wind detection system.
Wow. 🤩
Keith how often are you finding yourself ranging targets? I shoot all over oklahoma and a few texas matches and ive never had to range a target. Most match directors in the central region are verifying targets with a terrapin. That calypso device is very cool tech but i keep seeing shooters rely more on technology than simply just using your gut feeling and being confident in your wind call. Great content as always!
I was to a match this year where the match book stated that target ranges were plus or minus 100 yards. They weren't kidding. There are 2 local match directors who ALWAYS get EVERY range right. Fortunately for me, the others are learning from them.
Are doing out of spite or just being lazy? Or just part of their style of match?
@@LeftEdgePrecision I think it has more to do with the environment and equipment they have to work with. We all have learned that ranging back from the target to the shooting position is best. I think that point is part of how the exceptionally accurate MDs are improving the accuracy of the others.
Thanks for putting our straight to the point content. What are you using below your Calypso sensor that allows your wind ribbon to spin freely? I have a similar setup but have been unable to come up with a solution to that.
A paperclip. Not joking...
What digiscope setup are you using?
what are you using to connect the wind sensor to your tripod the rod?
I just participated in my third precision match this weekend. Had a great time but I'm realizing I need a lot of gear. Do you think it's possible to start with the fury 5k ab as my primary ranging, spotting, and ballistics solver while saving up to get the kestrel?
That will work just fine, don't get caught up in what you think you have to buy right away. My local PRS club shoots at a range where the wind at the shooter is almost never the correct wind call (lots of topography), so I rarely use a kestrel for anything but density altitude anyway.
Yes I do!
You don't need more gear, you need more skills.
I see the gear race on this side of the atlantic too. There are shooters with babystrollers full of gear at the matches and when you look at them they look like a million bucks, but when the match is over and you try to find them in the result list...
Don't get me wrong, stuff are fun, and I love to tinker with them. But the focus has to be on the shooting. It doesn't matter if you spend $10000 on rifles, bags, optics, tripods and all the other cool gear out there if you can't shoot.
It's not a standard yet, but it should be. Before you have a Kraft Number below 2, all you should be thinking about is how to improve as a rifleman.
I would argue that before you have obtained this level of skills it is a waste of time going to comps...