Posted on 11/29/2016 11:26:22 AM PST by w1n1
You may not be taking this into Account in Precision Long Range Shooting. If you’re into long range shooting, its important to understand how the “Coriolis effect” affects your shot at 1000 yards or greater.
The Coriolis effect is the rotation of the earth and the movement of a target downrange from the shooter. This is another element that a long distance shooter has to consider for along with wind, rain, snow, distance, elevation and a many other factors. Accounting for all these factors signifies the skill sets needed for precision long range shooting.
In simple layman's term:
"if you're shooting West, your target’s gonna rotate up and towards us, which is gonna cause the bullets to hit lower."
"if you're facing east, the target's going to be dropping and slightly moving away, which is gonna cause the hits to be higher."
Jeremy from Gunwerks points out these small errors can cause huge misses at greater distances than 1000 yards if you don't pay attention to. Could be that buck that you're missing out on. See the video footage here.
Why cuz you’ll probably just hurt it?
Too bad he misuses the term ‘Coriolis Effect’ ...
What always gets me about estimating wind is you know what the wind is doing where you are, but how do you know what it’s doing downrange?
Old joke: A hunter sees a bear directly South, and while checking his gun, the bear moves 50 years West.
The hunter aims directly South, and fires, killing the bear.
What color was the bear?
Texas has some extremely fast hogs!
Yeah, you gotta watch out for them bad boys.
I don’t have the math chops anymore but I would like to see the actual calculation for 1000 yards and less than 2 second flight time.
Say what?
That kept them busy doing the calculations to fire each round because of all the variables, mass, shape, charge, even though the aiming point was basically the City of Paris.
Counterclock in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. (Just saying, if you are not sure of your direction due to cloudcover, disorientation, etc...
I've been catching "them" for "then" today, but missed "years" for "yards"?
At least a target 1,000 yards away is a challenge. Much more so than shooting 60 yards with a scoped high-power rifle. That's not very sporting.
Pie r round. Cornbread r squared.
Wouldn’t there be the same distance of error but on a left to right or right to left plane from center of target if you were shooting north to south or south to north?
What about solar storms and cosmic rays?
They must be taken into consideration, as well...............
That would have to be pretty high velocity...............
Don’t forget the effects of gravitational pull from nearby large bodies.............
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