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    Posted: April/16/2011 at 13:51
A brief read for everyone, especially Billy j/k it is not a brief read it is 230 pages.  It is a very challenging read or at least the equations are. http://books.google.com/books?id=pX9Tzs7VuSoC&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=variable+yardage+wind&source=bl&ots=eXyQNDCDfW&sig=INH2sWy7s4Y-sbj1mFu4LsX7bw8&hl=en&ei=2OOpTeukA8Ll0QGR0NXiBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

You can scroll through the entire 230 page book and learn lots of valuable formulas...


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Thanks... I think!
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I'll look at it.

Perhaps, I'll buy it and look at it.  I ran into David Tubb at SHOT and he is talking about a ballistics concept that I am trying to make sense of.  I've been thinking about getting some background material.  The math I am comfortable with.  What I do not have enough of is practical experience.

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Also consider Bryan Litz' Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting. That's one of the best I've read. He is a talented engineer who is good at explaining the science in layman's terms. He also focuses on what's important while pointing out why other things aren't.
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I am very familiar with Litz's style he is very very logical and uses good word pictures.

I believe he is able to coin his own terms and people can understand them.

He does a gyroscopic discussion or q&a that I have referred people to when they ask why the impact is 9-10" right in a right twist or 9-10" left in a left twist, not including any wind...

He also has a good conceptual diagram(s) of the 100-200 yard yawing stabilizing as it gets further out...

Put some of these practical people together and teach a class and I am there...
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Originally posted by jonoMT jonoMT wrote:

Also consider Bryan Litz' Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting. That's one of the best I've read. He is a talented engineer who is good at explaining the science in layman's terms. He also focuses on what's important while pointing out why other things aren't.
You talked me into purchasing that book before I went to Iraq.  Great stuff.  I really enjoyed it.
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Originally posted by 338LAPUASLAP 338LAPUASLAP wrote:

A brief read for everyone, especially Billy j/k it is not a brief read it is 230 pages.  It is a very challenging read or at least the equations are. http://books.google.com/books?id=pX9Tzs7VuSoC&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=variable+yardage+wind&source=bl&ots=eXyQNDCDfW&sig=INH2sWy7s4Y-sbj1mFu4LsX7bw8&hl=en&ei=2OOpTeukA8Ll0QGR0NXiBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

You can scroll through the entire 230 page book and learn lots of valuable formulas...
This is a great "background" book for ballistics answering many questions of internal and external ballistics, using text, graphics and math to explain the concepts.  Very, very good...   It is a recommended read among the artillery men I associate with.  
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