Shooter App Question

[Doom2]

Looks like it's picking the station pressure up from the phone. There is an app called Barometer that you might want to install.

 

[BrentM]

Do you use a kestrel? You can change to da vs pressure vs absolute. I tend to run absolute as a default as I've been doing this long enough I know the general rule for elevation and absolute pressure. My kestrel will give me da or absolute and my Leica 3200 gives me absolute. The fewer things I have to input the better off I am as well

 

[azarcher10x]

I had a lot of fun trying to figure out why the Zeiss Hunting app wouldn't agree with my Zeiss RF binos. I'd input all the local station info into the app, and upload the ballistics to the binos. But then when I'd use the binos, they wouldn't match the ballistics from the app. After a lot of head scratching, I happened to notice one of settings in the ballistics app changed when I had the binos synced up. A little bluetooth icon showed up "Get absolute pressure." I clicked on it, and it input the pressure from the weather station in the binos. Bingo! Everything matched up. I looked high and low everywhere for user info related to that situation, but couldn't find anything anywhere.

 

[DesertBoy]

Do you use a kestrel? You can change to da vs pressure vs absolute. I tend to run absolute as a default as I've been doing this long enough I know the general rule for elevation and absolute pressure. My kestrel will give me da or absolute and my Leica 3200 gives me absolute. The fewer things I have to input the better off I am as well

I do use a Kestrel, thanks for the tip.

 

[22Kreedmire]

go to settings and enable density altitude. Basically same as kestrel uses. Then before you hit calculate on your solution pull the weather info by hitting the weather button. When I don't have my kestrel with me I do this(if I have service ). Been running shooter for close to 10 years. It works great. All inputs being equal it gives the EXACT solute the kestrel does, except for aerodynamic jump.

 

[waveslayer]

You will want to true shooter once you have your Velocity, true your BC as well to your gun and Velocity.

Use your kestrel's data it us the most accurate . It will auto populate in Shooter.

 

[DesertBoy]

go to settings and enable density altitude. Basically same as kestrel uses. Then before you hit calculate on your solution pull the weather info by hitting the weather button. When I don't have my kestrel with me I do this(if I have service ). Been running shooter for close to 10 years. It works great. All inputs being equal it gives the EXACT solute the kestrel does, except for aerodynamic jump.

This is awesome. Thank you

 

[22Kreedmire]

It pulls the data from local weather station but most time is close enough to make hits way out there.

 

[Doom2]

Just a note:

If Shooter uses weather station data you will most probably need to enter altitude since most data is corrected to sea level.

 

[BrentM]

Where I am you really can't use weather station data reliably. Just use absolute at your location and temp and you'll be gold. Other option is da from the kestrel but I'd use which is fastest for you. Me, I use absolute as it comes up in my lrf and also I can get within .5 by knowing my elevation and corresponding pressure. It's pretty linear.

 

[22Kreedmire]

Pulled weather from the local station with density altitude off and with it on. Both give me exactly the same 6.7mil to 1k with my 6 dasher. Which is correct every time I shoot +- a little for summer /winter . Using my kestrel after swinging I get 6.8 . Prob more accurate at 6.8 because it's my actual weather. But its CLOSE.

 

[Doom2]

The Kestral uses station pressure, ambient temperature and probably dew point/relative humidity to calculate DA.

If anyone is interested in playing with this, this site will help.

Density Altitude Calculator

www.weather.gov