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bigHUN

bigHUN

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I am shooting only in my gun club, my favourites are both the 50 and 100 meters. How the ranges are setup I have no issues for sub MOA in a calm day but not many of those at my place during summer months, and you don't want to know for a winter.

I started making some wind flags (some 3d printing the wings) but to learn more I decided to invest into some/any electronic gizmo.

The best that came to my mind was the WeatherMeter, but looks like it is discontinued and I cannot find any from old stock here in Canada, unfortunately.

The next units I know from Kestrel, but these price tags I just simple cannot justify.

What other reliable Brands out there I can plug in wireless to my Streloc Pro?
 
?? I have a couple of the Weathermeter units from Weatherflow. It looks like they are still around to me. 

https://weatherflow.com/weather-meter/
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Thanks, I was aiming for a dedicated airgunning (brown) unit = Precision Shooting Meter - when I note no longer available or ETA unknown.

All the other Weathermeters using the phone compass for direction, and for a this reason it needs to be close to the phone and both pointing in same direction.

Looks like I will order the blue meter, finally they including a threaded insert (at least) so we can attach to a tripod...

Also I could not find anything that has a longer BLE range, a claimed 100 ft is most likely stretched to a max. That would be nice to have a reading somewhere between 50-100 meters. Not sure yet for the Russian ultrasonic meters, takes me time to find a translator :)
 
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I am shooting only in my gun club, my favourites are both the 50 and 100 meters. How the ranges are setup I have no issues for sub MOA in a calm day but not many of those at my place during summer months, and you don't want to know for a winter.

I started making some wind flags (some 3d printing the wings) but to learn more I decided to invest into some/any electronic gizmo.

The best that came to my mind was the WeatherMeter, but looks like it is discontinued and I cannot find any from old stock here in Canada, unfortunately.

The next units I know from Kestrel, but these price tags I just simple cannot justify.

What other reliable Brands out there I can plug in wireless to my Streloc Pro?
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I have the Kestrel and really only use it for capturing ‘point in time’ snapshots of wind speed. 

I rely on flags to help me find good wind calls. https://www.thewindisnotyourfriend.com/flags/wick/wick.html. I have these. 

PM me if you want to discuss.

As you have probably already discovered, learning the wind at 50 and 100 yard ( or meter) bench rest is a journey. 

Tom 
 
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I am the only one in that big club shooting airguns only all other guns are mostly larger calibre precision rifles. They may be tolerant to me if I place maybe two flags in a 100 meter lane, but putting more would be also a difficult to manage in busy hours. Also I am using a high power scope SFP 10-50x60 usually zoom in all the way to the ring, to monitor a bigger number of flags I would probably need a room for an extra spotting scope as well cluttering the bench and now the number of bags dragging out to shooting lanes just grows again.
I am researching the Kestrel as well, but for the features I would like to have exist only in higher priced models, and I don't really like to idea spending several hundred bucks for it.
 
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In order to learn the wind direction and speed I was speculating some time, maybe the best to combine a meter and monitor the wind flags, to start with...

Finally decided and I bought the Weatherflow WeatherMeter (the blue unit) based on web pictures/videos = it is blue....as we would expect this is the one that is working ...

But turns out it doesn't have the internal magneto sensor = compass. To make things worst because my tablet I dedicated to Streloc Pro (Samsung galaxy Tablet A) doesn't have the magneto sensor neither.

Now .... my cellphone has the compass and eventually I can load the Wind-Weathermeter app there, but tinkering now that would mean only a half job done....I would need manually to input the wind direction (from my cellphone) into Strelok Pro (in my tablet).

I can return the WeatherMeter but the other unit dedicated for shooting sports is not available no ETA, and a Kestrel piece price is just out of my mind.

How this could work out? what could be some workaround?
 
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My concept wind indicator from 3d printed parts - first time outdoors for testing. The wind is swirling 360 and pulsing between 1 to 5 Km/hr. Still snow in the backyard corners but melting fast.

I shall maybe make this thing heavier somehow to move slower? WeatherMeter is connecting to StrelokPro perfect and I can read it on my Tablet-A inside house about 15 meters away.

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