Sorry for late release. Tornado very close tonight. Power is out and cell signal weak. Been a wild last 2 hours here!! Finally can make a comment!! 🤣 This is to show the worse of my performances along with the good ones. I think after filming this I may have figured out my issue. At least, something that contributed to a lot of it. Binos lost calibration and were sending target direction at least 90 degrees off. That would affect my windage numbers. Plus, it was super windy. Lots more to work on after this for sure!! I will share the results of my investigation into my gear mishap and let you all know if ya want to hear about it!! Now, to get back to watching this weather!! Stay safe and have a great weekend!!!
Always a learning process Chad, can't get better without practice and understanding the equipment. You are moving along though and appreciate the vids and letting us see what you have or are doing wrong. Keeps the rest of us straight!! LOL.
I wanted to skip this video so bad, lol. But, figured I want to be honest, not just show the good stuff. I think I figured out what happened. I will test this weekend and show what the problem was. We just had tornado like 6 miles away, so I lost power right as posted this video. Finally got cell service enough to see comments. Been an interesting night 🤣 I am glad my adventures and updates are being helpful. My goal is to show where things go wrong so others can watch for those mistakes, plus the times things go well!! Can learn from it all I think. Appreciate you watching, Alex! Have a great weekend!!!
Thanks Michael. I will show what happened next week. I think I figures it out after filming this. Compass calibrations were off and I was getting bad data. Like 90 degrees off! Most likely culprit. Just had tornado about 6 miles away. No power still. Trying to drive around and find some place open to get dinner 🤣🤣 I always learn, especially from the mistakes. Then I do all I can to not make them again!!! I'll be stronger than ever for mext month's final match of the season!! Have a good night and awesome weekend, man!
Yes! Learned a lot on this. Very different type of match. My whole process needs to be refined for this kind of match. Next one will be a normal PRS match to end the season. Hoping I redeem myself in 3 weeks 🤣 Going to dive into things this weekend after cleaning up from the tornado last night. I will identify the issue and correct it so I will do better going forward!! Thanks for watching, Patrick. I hope you have a great weekend and be safe if any of these storms are in your area!!
Thanks Mike! I am just able to see comments. Tornado like 6 miles from me. Power went out, was able to make this live, then lost cell signal for a while and couldn't open comments!! Been an interesting night so far 🤣🤣 I think I may have found the problem, so I will test it this weekend and show where I went wrong. I think my binos lost calibration and we're sending wrong target direction, which resulted in wrong wind calls. Hopefully that was all! Have a great weekend, sir!!
@mikewhite2aadvocacy172 Ahh, so you probably know Reed Timmer? He was the one here chasing this one. I posted his video on my community tab this morning. It was wild to watch it on his stream getting closer and closer!! We were very lucky this time. It could have been devastating.
@mikewhite2aadvocacy172 He drove thru town like 5 or 6 blocks from my house. If he was in the dominator, I might have left the house just to see it in person 🤣 But it was raining hard right then so I stayed inside!! Was cool to know he was driving half a mile from me while 30k people watched!!
Man, that wind is gnarly! It reminds me of when I lived in New Mexico... I swear that the wind never stopped out there and it was always 10+ MPH. I hope the tornados stayed away from you! We had nasty storms here in eastern Tennessee, but not much wind.
Yeah, last night was wild. Lost power right as I made this live. Then all the cell service was overwhelmed. Couldn't see or respond to comments for over 2 hours. The tornado touched down about 15 miles away and was moving towards Altus. Fizzled out about 5 or 6 miles away. Very, very close!! Reed Timmer has a video of it. I reposted it on my community tab this morning if you wanna see if form and get closer to town. Touched down in Duke, the small town where the pistol range is and the range where the next PRS match is!! This one was extremely close! Match day was so windy. Some steady 20 to 24 times. I think I saw we had gusts in the 40 mph range that day!!! I think my binos were not sending proper target direction and that was making my wind correction way off. I am still not confident enough to know what it should be from feel or memory, so I trusted the numbers I got. They were wrong 🤣 I will test more this weekend after cleaning up from the wind damage and update with more info about what happened and how to fix it!! Have a great weekend, Justin! Stay safe if any of these storms get close. This year has been out of control with the tornados!!
Yikes! I've been close to a few twisters, but not recently, thankfully. A few years ago, I was driving to work at a company sister-site in Amarillo, TX (I was there for a week or so to help out their staff fix a problem), and I was on the highway as a twister came up at a 45 degree to the road a few miles in front of me. That was... exciting. 🤣 Not much gets me worried (I build things that blow up as my job), but Nature worries me sometimes because it's tricky to predict what it's going to do. When I got into long range shooting, reading the wind was the hardest thing to do for me. On the up side, it's all at known fixed ranges every time, but on the down side we're not allowed any wind reading equipment so you've got to judge the wind on your own. I realize that time is in short supply in your shooting discipline, but do you think a "sanity check" sheet would help? Basically just make a table with ranges in say 50 yard increments (so as to not make the table a mile long) and for each range have a wind call for 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 MPH wind at full 90 degree value. It wouldn't be perfect, but at least you'd have a hard copy of corrections to quickly double check to make sure your hardware isn't feeding you bad calls.
@DocJustinT Yeah, Amarillo has gotten a few in it's time. They are just so scary because they will change direction and go wherever they want! This one was heading southeast, then cut northeast and started heading towards Altus directly. It was a puckering evening to say the least!! Yes, that is 1 thing I am disappointed with myself about actually. I had written out cards with 20 yard increments of elevation with wind from 3 to 20 at a 3 o'clock cross. But, I wrote it out the night before so I was not familiar with using it. We hardly ever had direct crosswind, so I left that in my bag. I had enough to keep track of without looking at that as well. I need to learn the math for the subtraction for different values. Pretty sure there is a basic formula to get close. Like a 4:30 wind is .87 of the 3:00 adjustment or something like that. Pretty sure that wind reading is going to be the thing that takes me the longest. My mistake was not ever looking at my Kestrel. I would link it to the binos, then drop in that pouch on my tripod. So I never looked at the screen to realize some directions might have been way off!! I was trying to keep up and figure out the stage, looking at the display to see if anything looked off never entered my mind until I was filming this video 🤣🤣 Kicking myself now. But, I will be very, very aware of this in the future and I should not ever make this error again!! I learn fast once I see a problem, it's cause and the fix for it. I should be good in now. But, more practice will be the thing that really locks in the learning from this. I likely should have given a try at analog instead of digital this time, but I was very confident I had it all figured out. Should have known that being too confident would smack me in the butt🤣🤣
It seems like you're really on the clock, so you could probably get away with quick estimates for wind calls. You're right that there's a formula for how much percent of a full value the wind is at different angles, but in a time crunch you can typically get away with no wind correction if the wind is say 11:00 to 1:00 (or 5:00 to 7:00), full value if it's like 2:30 to 3:30 (or 8:30 to 9:30) and you can estimate the correction as 3/4 of full if the wind is anything else. That should get you close in a time crunch. Of course, that's quite an estimate and it has a good deal of error, but when seconds count, it is better than nothing.
@DocJustinT That is a helpful range to consider. I will fully admit that I am probably the person at each match who is most concerned about wind. I check it constantly and get frustrated when it shifts from 4 to 6 to 7:30 to 5 to 3:30 to 4 again in the minute I'm trying to get a reading 🤣 Then I get all stressed on it and just guess for a direction in the middle and hope it holds until my turn. My friend says I am way too worried about the wind. In my mind, I have the tools to take accurate measurements so I want to use them to be as precise as possible. Definitely still over complicating this part of it. Likely going to be my top focus all summer. Learn all the tricks of wind I can!!
Yep, I think I found the problem. Binos were sending target direction 90 to 130 degrees off. So, that would make the wind correction displayed way off. I plan to test this weekend.... assuming my place is still there. May have had a flash flood on my range area. The tornado dropped like 5 miles from one of the ranges we use for matches. Actually, next month final location. Might have to do some clean up!! On the hunt now for power in town to get dinner. 2 hours with no power at home now. Been a fun night 🤣🤣 Hope to show off the problem and how I missed it next week, with the way to correct it! I will learn a lot from this one and get back to doing well very fast!! Have a great evening and awesome weekend, Walter!
O yes, learning a lot from these bad performances. This was the worse. I trusted my gear, but I think I found where things got out of whack. After cleaning up from the tornado last night this weekend, I will test my theory and try to show where things got off. Hope to explain the issue and the fix for it!! Have a great weekend, CW! Stay safe if any of these storms come your way! Last night was crazy here 🤣🤣
Very. Still without power. Made this video live right when it went out. Just got cell signal enough to see comments. Fizzled out about 6 miles from me. Was a big, slow moving, strong one. We got very lucky. Sounds like minimal structures were hit. My block is dark, across the street has power. I can't eat dinner so I'm in my truck to drive around and try to find something open to get some food. Weird night so far! Stay safe as well, Dale!! Appreciate you, sir!
@dalepogue5799 yeah dude, tonight was full pucker!! Filmed a short of the hail, lightning and thunder from front porch. Gnarliest I have seen in years. Worse part right now, looks like whole town has power except like 5 blocks, which I live in the middle of 🤣🤣 Got some food, getting gas now, then home to eat in the dark and pass out. Touched down in Duke, which is where my night pistol match was. Likely 1 or 2 miles from there. I'd say maybe 5 or 6 miles from where we do PRS. Next match in 3 weeks will be there! Sounds like it fizzled out about 5 or 6 miles from Altus tho. Was intense tracking it and trying to stay dressed and prepped to move if needed. Made it thru, everyone is good. All that truly matters!!
Sorry for late release. Tornado very close tonight. Power is out and cell signal weak. Been a wild last 2 hours here!! Finally can make a comment!! 🤣
This is to show the worse of my performances along with the good ones. I think after filming this I may have figured out my issue. At least, something that contributed to a lot of it. Binos lost calibration and were sending target direction at least 90 degrees off. That would affect my windage numbers. Plus, it was super windy.
Lots more to work on after this for sure!! I will share the results of my investigation into my gear mishap and let you all know if ya want to hear about it!!
Now, to get back to watching this weather!! Stay safe and have a great weekend!!!
Always a learning process Chad, can't get better without practice and understanding the equipment. You are moving along though and appreciate the vids and letting us see what you have or are doing wrong. Keeps the rest of us straight!! LOL.
I wanted to skip this video so bad, lol. But, figured I want to be honest, not just show the good stuff. I think I figured out what happened. I will test this weekend and show what the problem was. We just had tornado like 6 miles away, so I lost power right as posted this video. Finally got cell service enough to see comments. Been an interesting night 🤣
I am glad my adventures and updates are being helpful. My goal is to show where things go wrong so others can watch for those mistakes, plus the times things go well!! Can learn from it all I think.
Appreciate you watching, Alex! Have a great weekend!!!
You will get'em next time.... Sorry you had a bad day.... just learn from it and move on to the next one.... Have a good weekend Chad!
Thanks Michael. I will show what happened next week. I think I figures it out after filming this. Compass calibrations were off and I was getting bad data. Like 90 degrees off! Most likely culprit. Just had tornado about 6 miles away. No power still. Trying to drive around and find some place open to get dinner 🤣🤣
I always learn, especially from the mistakes. Then I do all I can to not make them again!!! I'll be stronger than ever for mext month's final match of the season!!
Have a good night and awesome weekend, man!
We learn more from our failures than we do our successes. The lessons stick better. As long as you learned something, it's a win.
Yes! Learned a lot on this. Very different type of match. My whole process needs to be refined for this kind of match. Next one will be a normal PRS match to end the season. Hoping I redeem myself in 3 weeks 🤣
Going to dive into things this weekend after cleaning up from the tornado last night. I will identify the issue and correct it so I will do better going forward!!
Thanks for watching, Patrick. I hope you have a great weekend and be safe if any of these storms are in your area!!
I can't watch the entire video at the moment, but I plan to do so this weekend. So far, it's been really interesting, and I'm eager to see the rest.
Thanks Mike! I am just able to see comments. Tornado like 6 miles from me. Power went out, was able to make this live, then lost cell signal for a while and couldn't open comments!! Been an interesting night so far 🤣🤣
I think I may have found the problem, so I will test it this weekend and show where I went wrong. I think my binos lost calibration and we're sending wrong target direction, which resulted in wrong wind calls. Hopefully that was all!
Have a great weekend, sir!!
@@ChadKelly7 I watch a couple of the Tornado Chasers and they are terrifying, stay safe Chad above all
@mikewhite2aadvocacy172 Ahh, so you probably know Reed Timmer? He was the one here chasing this one. I posted his video on my community tab this morning. It was wild to watch it on his stream getting closer and closer!!
We were very lucky this time. It could have been devastating.
@@ChadKelly7 Yes Chad, I follow him on YT, he's CRAAAZY and his chase car the Dominator is cool when he has it running.
@mikewhite2aadvocacy172 He drove thru town like 5 or 6 blocks from my house. If he was in the dominator, I might have left the house just to see it in person 🤣 But it was raining hard right then so I stayed inside!!
Was cool to know he was driving half a mile from me while 30k people watched!!
Man, that wind is gnarly! It reminds me of when I lived in New Mexico... I swear that the wind never stopped out there and it was always 10+ MPH. I hope the tornados stayed away from you! We had nasty storms here in eastern Tennessee, but not much wind.
Yeah, last night was wild. Lost power right as I made this live. Then all the cell service was overwhelmed. Couldn't see or respond to comments for over 2 hours. The tornado touched down about 15 miles away and was moving towards Altus. Fizzled out about 5 or 6 miles away. Very, very close!! Reed Timmer has a video of it. I reposted it on my community tab this morning if you wanna see if form and get closer to town. Touched down in Duke, the small town where the pistol range is and the range where the next PRS match is!! This one was extremely close!
Match day was so windy. Some steady 20 to 24 times. I think I saw we had gusts in the 40 mph range that day!!!
I think my binos were not sending proper target direction and that was making my wind correction way off. I am still not confident enough to know what it should be from feel or memory, so I trusted the numbers I got. They were wrong 🤣
I will test more this weekend after cleaning up from the wind damage and update with more info about what happened and how to fix it!!
Have a great weekend, Justin! Stay safe if any of these storms get close. This year has been out of control with the tornados!!
Yikes! I've been close to a few twisters, but not recently, thankfully. A few years ago, I was driving to work at a company sister-site in Amarillo, TX (I was there for a week or so to help out their staff fix a problem), and I was on the highway as a twister came up at a 45 degree to the road a few miles in front of me. That was... exciting. 🤣 Not much gets me worried (I build things that blow up as my job), but Nature worries me sometimes because it's tricky to predict what it's going to do.
When I got into long range shooting, reading the wind was the hardest thing to do for me. On the up side, it's all at known fixed ranges every time, but on the down side we're not allowed any wind reading equipment so you've got to judge the wind on your own. I realize that time is in short supply in your shooting discipline, but do you think a "sanity check" sheet would help? Basically just make a table with ranges in say 50 yard increments (so as to not make the table a mile long) and for each range have a wind call for 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 MPH wind at full 90 degree value. It wouldn't be perfect, but at least you'd have a hard copy of corrections to quickly double check to make sure your hardware isn't feeding you bad calls.
@DocJustinT Yeah, Amarillo has gotten a few in it's time. They are just so scary because they will change direction and go wherever they want! This one was heading southeast, then cut northeast and started heading towards Altus directly. It was a puckering evening to say the least!!
Yes, that is 1 thing I am disappointed with myself about actually. I had written out cards with 20 yard increments of elevation with wind from 3 to 20 at a 3 o'clock cross. But, I wrote it out the night before so I was not familiar with using it. We hardly ever had direct crosswind, so I left that in my bag. I had enough to keep track of without looking at that as well.
I need to learn the math for the subtraction for different values. Pretty sure there is a basic formula to get close. Like a 4:30 wind is .87 of the 3:00 adjustment or something like that.
Pretty sure that wind reading is going to be the thing that takes me the longest.
My mistake was not ever looking at my Kestrel. I would link it to the binos, then drop in that pouch on my tripod. So I never looked at the screen to realize some directions might have been way off!! I was trying to keep up and figure out the stage, looking at the display to see if anything looked off never entered my mind until I was filming this video 🤣🤣 Kicking myself now. But, I will be very, very aware of this in the future and I should not ever make this error again!! I learn fast once I see a problem, it's cause and the fix for it. I should be good in now. But, more practice will be the thing that really locks in the learning from this.
I likely should have given a try at analog instead of digital this time, but I was very confident I had it all figured out. Should have known that being too confident would smack me in the butt🤣🤣
It seems like you're really on the clock, so you could probably get away with quick estimates for wind calls. You're right that there's a formula for how much percent of a full value the wind is at different angles, but in a time crunch you can typically get away with no wind correction if the wind is say 11:00 to 1:00 (or 5:00 to 7:00), full value if it's like 2:30 to 3:30 (or 8:30 to 9:30) and you can estimate the correction as 3/4 of full if the wind is anything else. That should get you close in a time crunch. Of course, that's quite an estimate and it has a good deal of error, but when seconds count, it is better than nothing.
@DocJustinT That is a helpful range to consider. I will fully admit that I am probably the person at each match who is most concerned about wind. I check it constantly and get frustrated when it shifts from 4 to 6 to 7:30 to 5 to 3:30 to 4 again in the minute I'm trying to get a reading 🤣
Then I get all stressed on it and just guess for a direction in the middle and hope it holds until my turn.
My friend says I am way too worried about the wind. In my mind, I have the tools to take accurate measurements so I want to use them to be as precise as possible. Definitely still over complicating this part of it.
Likely going to be my top focus all summer. Learn all the tricks of wind I can!!
Well.. as you said “back to the drawing board”. I know you’ll get it figured out. I hope you’re staying safe from the weather tonight. 🤛🏻🌪️⛈️⛈️🔫🇺🇸
Yep, I think I found the problem. Binos were sending target direction 90 to 130 degrees off. So, that would make the wind correction displayed way off. I plan to test this weekend.... assuming my place is still there. May have had a flash flood on my range area. The tornado dropped like 5 miles from one of the ranges we use for matches. Actually, next month final location. Might have to do some clean up!!
On the hunt now for power in town to get dinner. 2 hours with no power at home now.
Been a fun night 🤣🤣
Hope to show off the problem and how I missed it next week, with the way to correct it!
I will learn a lot from this one and get back to doing well very fast!!
Have a great evening and awesome weekend, Walter!
As long as ya learned something and had fun... ya are never the looser! ❤🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏❤️🩹
O yes, learning a lot from these bad performances. This was the worse. I trusted my gear, but I think I found where things got out of whack. After cleaning up from the tornado last night this weekend, I will test my theory and try to show where things got off. Hope to explain the issue and the fix for it!!
Have a great weekend, CW! Stay safe if any of these storms come your way! Last night was crazy here 🤣🤣
Tornado got close to you tonight. Be safe Chad
Very. Still without power. Made this video live right when it went out. Just got cell signal enough to see comments. Fizzled out about 6 miles from me. Was a big, slow moving, strong one. We got very lucky. Sounds like minimal structures were hit.
My block is dark, across the street has power. I can't eat dinner so I'm in my truck to drive around and try to find something open to get some food. Weird night so far!
Stay safe as well, Dale!! Appreciate you, sir!
@@ChadKelly7 close as we have been this year is 13 miles away
@dalepogue5799 yeah dude, tonight was full pucker!! Filmed a short of the hail, lightning and thunder from front porch. Gnarliest I have seen in years. Worse part right now, looks like whole town has power except like 5 blocks, which I live in the middle of 🤣🤣
Got some food, getting gas now, then home to eat in the dark and pass out.
Touched down in Duke, which is where my night pistol match was. Likely 1 or 2 miles from there. I'd say maybe 5 or 6 miles from where we do PRS. Next match in 3 weeks will be there!
Sounds like it fizzled out about 5 or 6 miles from Altus tho. Was intense tracking it and trying to stay dressed and prepped to move if needed.
Made it thru, everyone is good. All that truly matters!!