Thanks!

Fun with Flags!

I think your doing it right!
I am new to benchrest shooting and i see 1 shot 1 target and judge where the flags are to the shot.
Thanks for your video 😉👍

Great Vid, really helpful, am just learning benchrest myself, it is challenging and a humbling experience when things are not consistent after you think you have cracked it. You have a good attitude to the sport and it’s entertaining and informative to watch, thanks

Hey great Video, there is no bulls eye just a 10 center! cheers

Wind is only "wind" relative to a stationary object on the ground.  Like an airplane taking off, as soon as a bullet leaves the muzzle it is now a moving object flying within an air mass that is moving, or not across the ground. And weather it's a direct headwind, tailwind or crosswind makes no difference, it offers no additional drag or push on the bullet beyond the drag coefficient of the bullet moving through the air. The bullets AIRSPEED is still the same, what varies is its ground speed and ground track. People tend to think that because a 22 is small bullet the wind can blow it all around. That is not true. Once it is flying within the moving air mass the speed of the air mass has no effect on its flight thru it. What it DOES affect is its ground track and ground speed. 50 yards is a short distance for a bullet traveling at 1000 ft plus per second, and it's time of travel within the air mass is very short. So even a 10 mph wind will have very little effect on its point of impact. Now, what DOES have a much greater effect is how turbulent the air mass is. I have been an Airline Pilot for 34 years. I have flown in upper level "winds" that have exceeded 180 knots, 207 mph, many times and it be smooth as glass. I've also flown in 10 mile per hour winds and been knocked around so much I couldn't see my flight instrument clearly. Some of the most turbulent landings I've ever done have been landing in Las Vegas on a hot summer day in "calm winds" conditions. The culprit being thermals.

Unless it's really blowing, say above a steady 10 mph wind, correcting for the wind is negligible. The far greater "danger" to your shot is when you see one or more flags doing something much different then the others. That is turbulence. So is seeing a mirage when you look thru your scope. That's telling you heat is rising which is also a shot killer. There isn't a shooter on earth that can compensate for turbulence. At 50 yards in winds, say below 10 mph, wait till all your flags are doing basically the same thing and you don't see any mirage. Then aim right at the dot and shoot. I have a LabRadar and I use it every time I shoot, be it practice or a match. That way when I do have a flier at least I can tell if it was because of an under or over charged round that messed up the shot.  Very good video BTW. It actually illustrates a lot of what I just said.

The wind flags in your video seem to make sense to me better than others I've looked at.
Who makes the wind flags you used ?
Thanks for the demonstration

Hi
Thankyou for Video
can you tell me where i can purchases
the wind flags used in video
Alberto

Maybe if you have 1 longer tail in stead of 2 same size tails that may help you in wind speed????????

I’m trying to learn this wind reading. Great video, but wish I could better see where the bullet went in correlation to the flags.

seems most shooters use 4 flags for 50yds, do you think 2 is sufficient? What spacing on flags did you use? Enjoy your vid. Thanks

Would you recommend the SK pistol special for the tikka T1x ?

The standard deviation of your bullet hit is not within the 100 ring!  Faithful subscriber not just making noise!

Why do you not shoot when the wind is calm? I would think that would be better. Does the wind make that much difference?

all those shots are meaningless if you do not show where bullets are landing on the target