217 yards, in a 10mph croswind! I had the bullet drop figured but the wind was a SWAG.....crack of the gun...one dead crow! I had a horseshoe up my butt!!! GHD

Considering where that horseshoe was, I doubt you took the shot from the sitting position...

i gotta agree with rootbeer..... thats got to be unconfortable..........

How the hell am I suposed to get rid of that mental picture?

Hairtrigger, Go out and set up near one of those beanfields with the xp. Then make a shot on a varmint at some ridicoulous distance (for the gun used) and then you will know the feeling of the "horseshoe up the butt" syndrome! GHD PS: I'm surprised you guys haven't used that term before!

I can never get the crows to stand still long enough to feel comfortable pointing an XP (or anything without a 20" + barrel on it) in that direction.

NICE SHOT!!

I will try to pinch a horseshoe between my cheeks and see if my shooting improves

GHD

I bet your daughter can shoot that well also
Keep up the good work

I wonder what the Ci and drift of that .17 bullet was?

I shot a crow the other day and forgot about the wind as from my position I could not feel it. The rifle was a Swift however and at 150 yds. My wind defection with 10 mph at 90 degrees would have been 1.86". I don't think the wind was that strong at that height from the ground.

Savage99, This bullet had about 10" of right to left drift according to where I was holding! The bullet also was 20 feet above ground level for part of it's trip! There is a depression between where I was and the crow was so it was absolutely a SWAG+HS as to figuring what it should have done! GHD

With a luck blessing like that, it's ashamed you wasted it on a crow instead of a Loto ticket

I carry a runoff of the ballistics in my pocket for every rifle. I use the PointBlank program. I leave the folded up paper in each ammo box. I used to tape them to the butt stocks but that messed the gun up.

When it's an easy shot you don't need to look of course but when it's far there is time to do it right. First I laser it, look it up and then adjust the elevation and hold off for the wind.

You can figure the ballistic coeffient by interpolation by looking up the factory velocities at one range and then another and adjusting an exteral program until it matches the velocities. There are some programs that will calculate the Ci direct.

I have not done it yet for the .22LR and I should. It's just that I am not using it right now.