Great video Gary, range finding is a massive part of the sport, its almost a sport in its self. Its a tough concept to grasp and an even harder one to explain, I think you did a great job.
The main thing I'm learning from all of these is you guys have a LOT of methods that I don't even consider ... haha! I've never been convinced by the bracketing, as I couldn't tell the difference between two killzone sizes out at distance for starters, and assumed they could/would be made differently to throw people off, as you say in this video! I solely use the Mk1 Eyeball, but with a .22 this can be a bit punishing (especially after a night on the beers) The head bob sounds like something I can easily add to my arsenal with a bit of practice, and certainly something I didn't know about! I hope it works with the Connect! Thanks again for such valuable information .. even though most of it I will forget or find too hard to implement, and just carry on being mediocre ..
The best thing to bracket is something that it uniform at each target and is usually attached to the same tree, the target number. Each target has to have a number so you know which target you are aiming at if you can size the card early that’s then the same for the rest of the corse. So I know my club numbers are 150mm across if it measures 5 mil dots it’s 30m if it’s 3.5 mil dots it’s 43m.
Excellent stuff 👍 I would add reading the plate (learnt that from your Airgunner HFT tips articles) ie, mk 1 eyeball tells you 30 yds, lots of missus under the kill, maybe it’s 40? Play the odds…helped me out a few times. Great video’s, thanks! Matt
Wow I have got some range work to do armed with all that knowledge, cheap on pellets though I'll spend most of the time ranging, a very very helpful video, I just signed up to the magazine so I'm looking forward to that too. Think I'll get some strange looks from security at Morrisons though as I pace distances out I'll look like John cleese. I'd love to go along to a HFT shoot to watch and learn and talk to shooters. Thanks again.
I use the mk1 eyeball, but as a past rugby referee have a good idea of ranges, eg 5, 10, 15, 22 & 40 metres, gives a good indication of where these lines are in relation to YOUR eye and head angle.
Excellent video , well done Gary . I will try these things . I never realised this air rifle shooting was so complex.wish I had a hit or field target club near me so I could have a go .
@@ianstinger2776 Hi Ian, the nearest HFT club you have is Furnace Mill about 30 miles and Nomads which is around 35. Both are great clubs with friendly people. We'll worth a visit.
Gonna have to give this HFT stuff a bash , gorra small practice one at our range , as well as a full size one .. practice one first I think , and a few times at that , slowly slowly catchy monkey as they say
Being a Dane living in Denmark, not being a competition shooter in England where airgun shooting seems to be more or less a national sport on par with football, I have probably missed something very important, so I'd like to apologize for my ignorance in advance. But, what exactly is the point of attempting to deny competitors the chance to correctly determine the distance to a target? I mean, I get that there are probably certain rules against using LRFs, GPS and whatnot, but why block the hinge at the bottom of targets, or use those yellow plates of varying sizes? As anyone who's ever taken shooting of any weapon just moderately serious knows, range finding is of the utmost importance, so why try to make it harder? Everybody competes within the same set of rules, and factoring in wind and distance, and elevation of the target in relation to the shooter already presents a challenge in itself, at least to me, so it seems to me that the goal of the competition moves away from trying to hit a kill zone, and into trying to outsmart whoever set it up in the first place, without breaking the rules. Are we not going to _always_ try to determine our holdover- or under, before we take a shot, and are we not _always_ going to use each and every trick we know to do just that? I think we all are, so why not also ban scopes with parallax adjustment, mil-dots, or zoom option? Why not ban scopes that have a reticule other than a simple cross and set magnification? It appears to me that _some_ ways to range find are ok, while others aren't. And I can't get it to make any sense at all, could somebody kindly explain what I'm missing here?
Hi Mace, Thanks for the comment and I certainly see where you are coming from. HFT is multipart sport. The first is the ability to shoot, the second is range finding. It is a constant battle between the shooter and the course setter. It has been rumored that course setter stay young from the tears of their shooting HFT victims. None of us would hunt without a Rangefinder, but taking on a course with just your eyes, gun and scope is the fun of it. Gary
