Mirage and wind calls (video)

Mirage can indeed be your friend. But, at low power settings (3X to say 5X), seeing mirage is a bit difficult, unless it is REALLY hot. Down here in the hill country, it never gets hot enough, unless you're looking through 10X or perhaps 20X. 

Nice Keith! I like the charts you included in the video.

Great video . Never heard the idea of paralexing back. Makes sense. I was always watching at the target. Wind direction is tough for me This might help 

Good humor too. Liked the one with the mouse and the foot ball helmet .

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Fantastic. Bookmarked for the diagrams. Thank you sir!

Well, I could hardly ever see mirage at airgun ranges. I learned that I need to focus at a distance between myself and the target to help with seeing the mirage. That was all I needed to get to the next step. Thank you!

Thanks for the video, I watched this one. Shooting at 50x during competition mirage is very evident Being able to see the mirage 'screaming' off the target at 55yds can be deceiving though. What can look like a heavy breeze/wind can in fact be the heat/mirage moving off the target. I guess my tip would be not to read mirage directly from your target, it will fool you. Thanks for the videos.

John

Oh, as for reading wind between you and the target keeping both eyes open during the shot if the best way to make any last second adjustments.

BOIL can be the worst!, especially shooting in the morning with heavy dew or rain the night before the sun comes up heats up the ground and starts up the evap. Machine ha,ha! also with boil if it’s especially heavy making the bull on target look like it’s dancing around... so now the question is “ where is the bull & where do I aim to hit it correctly? Hopefully it “snaps” giving you the true aiming point on target.

I got to learn to read mirage and wind better particularly for some of my silo pigeon shots. Recently tried my first 100 yard shots on some pigeons sitting on the silo when I got there. I was sitting on the corner of a building with the wind coming one way but at the pigeons the wind was the opposite direction. I need to read the mirage if I can. Thanks for the tips. Bill

I used reading mirage for wind calls today with great success in my match today. Enough so that I won my class and scored match high for the second week in a row.