Long Range Shooting Handbook: Complete Beginner's Guide to Long Range Shooting

by Ryan M. Cleckner

Here’s my trick for shooting off of a vertical support from the same side as your dominant hand: fold down the bipod leg that is on the side of the vertical support (for shooting off of the right side of a support, this is the left bipod leg) and use your support hand in a thumb down position to press and hold the bipod leg against the vertical support.

16.7 Acceptable Error If I had to pick only one section of this book as the section that is most likely to make someone a better shooter, this section would surely be a finalist. Read this section twice, think about it, practice it, and repeat as necessary. Once I was able to embrace this theory, my shooting evolved from technical proficiency (knowing what to do) to tactical proficiency (knowing how to do it).

Wind is the second biggest effect on a bullet in flight. It is also the hardest to account for. Determining the wind’s speed and direction at different distances, or “reading wind,” is truly an art and can take a lifetime to master.

scope at the target. There are also devices which mount directly to your rifle. One of my favorites is called the Angle Cosine Indicator. What’s nice about this is it gives you the cosine of the angle (which as you’ll read later is what you want), instead of giving you the angle measurement.

Here’s the takeaway – use the “angle distance” for elevation but the actual distance for wind.