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When Is There Too Much Wind?
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<blockquote data-quote="Captn C" data-source="post: 183140" data-attributes="member: 9584"><p>How much is too much?</p><p> </p><p>One of the deer leases I am on is coastal and the wind blows all the time. The wife and I were shooting this past weekend and we had about 7' of wind drift at just under 700 yards. She was shooting her AR in 7.62X39 and did very well (at least I thought so). I dropped off a target and drove down a ranch road until I started to loose site of it in the rear view mirror. Turns out we were about 30 yards short of 4/10th a mile...i don't have a range finder so I had her shoot while I spotted the shots. Once we had the elivation she could hit it 3 out 5 shots, but all her misses were wind blown. The target was 20"X30" and all of her misses were so close I thought they were all hits.</p><p> </p><p>Being an offshore charter captain during the season I am pretty fair with wind and was sure we were seeing gusts to over 20 knots. </p><p> </p><p>Is that too much wind for hunting? Were do you guys break off long range attempts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Captn C, post: 183140, member: 9584"] How much is too much? One of the deer leases I am on is coastal and the wind blows all the time. The wife and I were shooting this past weekend and we had about 7' of wind drift at just under 700 yards. She was shooting her AR in 7.62X39 and did very well (at least I thought so). I dropped off a target and drove down a ranch road until I started to loose site of it in the rear view mirror. Turns out we were about 30 yards short of 4/10th a mile...i don't have a range finder so I had her shoot while I spotted the shots. Once we had the elivation she could hit it 3 out 5 shots, but all her misses were wind blown. The target was 20"X30" and all of her misses were so close I thought they were all hits. Being an offshore charter captain during the season I am pretty fair with wind and was sure we were seeing gusts to over 20 knots. Is that too much wind for hunting? Were do you guys break off long range attempts? [/QUOTE]
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