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#10MinuteTalk - Ballistic Calculator Basics

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A huge component of executing precise long-range shots – sound ballistic data. Ryan Muckenhirn joins Mark Boardman to break down ballistic calculator basics. The good news is all you need are some baseline inputs. The math is done for you – thank goodness!

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Mr. Ryan mucking her and across from me right now, we're going back

0:08.8

to basics. We're going back to ballistic calculator basics, Ryan. Now, this is a 10-minute

0:14.3

talk. We actually had a request from a person. They're like, hey, you know, I'm kind of

0:17.8

getting into long-range shooting, trying to figure out my M.O.A.'s, they're shooting

0:22.2

an M.O.A. You know, want to shoot, but like, I can't figure out my M.O.A.'s. Sure. And

0:27.5

what I deciphered from this was like, oh, I think this person is trying to do it. They

0:32.9

don't have a ballistic calculator. And we've done a lot on the podcast with you, with other

0:37.7

people on long-range shooting. And we probably covered this before, but sometimes I was

0:44.4

like trying to think back in my memory banks, like, well, we probably kind of covered it,

0:47.6

like, almost like glossed over it. Yeah. And so we're just going to talk today about

0:52.4

ballistic calculators, right? What they are, what they do. We're risking to get one,

0:58.1

maybe some options that are out there. And then what you have to do to make them work

1:04.1

to spit out the dope, which is interesting because we still call it dope, but it's really

1:08.9

not dope anymore because you're just plugging in the numbers. Yeah, it's not, there's

1:12.1

no, there's no previous engagement probably. Yeah. So dope data on previous engagement,

1:16.9

which would be like stuff that you learned from actually shooting. Yeah. You know, almost

1:22.9

like that real world, like, okay, when I shot in these conditions, my bullet landed

1:26.5

here, it did this. What you can, you, we still do to a degree. Yeah. But man, we start with

1:32.6

a head start now. Yeah. Let's talk, ballistics calculators, right?

1:36.6

Okay. This is different than an abacus slightly. You said basic. We're going to go a little

1:41.1

more more intermediate than, yeah, super basic. So different than an abacus. Yes. I don't

1:46.9

know what to do with this boom. Do you have a ballistic silky? You don't know what to do

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