Illuminating Reality

One of my hobbies that’s a carry-over from my years as a soldier in the Army is long range shooting.  Understanding and exploiting the science of ballistics lets me take a particular load of ammunition and compute a predicted trajectory based on environmental factors such as barometric pressure, altitude and wind.  But there’s also an art form to creating a stable shooting platform with your body, controlling your breathing and making the shooting process fluid, not to mention estimating the wind speed and direction downrange.

Here’s a clip from a recent shoot out in the desert.  The targets are 10×17″ AR500 steel targets – about the size of a laptop screen.

Update:  I just came back from another trip out to the same area and this time made a few hits on the steel targets at a whopping 1750 yards.  Time of flight to the target was almost 2 seconds and it was another 3 seconds before we heard the report.