how to git gud at range finding?
climb a building, eyeballing people range, then check it with picrel?
how to git gud at range finding? climb a building, eyeballing people range, then check it with picrel?
how to git gud at range finding?
climb a building, eyeballing people range, then check it with picrel?
The human eye is unreliable for range finding. You need to use instruments.
Take up golf. I've become absolutely amazing over the years at guestimating distance to target for anything under 600 yards.
Again, golfers would disagree with you.
Take a shot to see how far from point of aim it drops. Then just maths
I just count steps. When I got into rangefinders I discovered that my ability to judge distances using steps was actually very accurate.
Steps? Like, the ones we walk on?
Understanding perspective is key. Most people vastly underestimate the height of objects at a distance, which means you assume an object of a known height (i.e. a 6ft tall man) is further away than it actually is.
People say that short guys often lead to false results with scopes that have built in ranging. I heard it from both GT and Hop.
Consider: 65 inches compared to 72 inches is nearly a 10 percent difference. This induces a proportionally greater error in drop estimation the further out the target is, potentially to the point where the bullet will hit the dirt instead of your target.
It's honestly just something you need to FEEL.
There's no technique to it.
You do enough looking at things at various ranges, and eventually can just tell at a glance.
Iron sights help build that feel faster. Magnified optics less fast.
Just look at shit, shoot at shit, and you will have a mental rangefinder before long.
>32 year old LOOOOKER
>32 year old
Nobody reaches that age before losing their farsight to computer screen induced myopia.
Its true, when Im trying to figure out how far I need to throw the baseball to my son I have him stand still the shoot at his feet with iron sights.
Fuck math, but this is a nice non signature emitting alternative to laser rangefinders for quick judgements.
https://www.blackhillsdesigns.net/product/range-r-card/
>have 2fp LPVO
>make 16"-18" circle taget
>place target
>starting with 1x, aim in on scope so target fills reticle, move further back as needed
>record distance from target
>repeat as many times as there are zoom levels
>make sticker with Zoom:Range info and stick to inside of scope cover
Easy and quick range fidning with nothing more than your scope and a tape measure.
Go outside to a big area, throw some rocks or golf balls or something as far as you can. Count the paces to where they landed, and assuming you're not a manlet approximate those steps to yards/meters. Now you know how far away you can throw something. Just don't try to shoot anything further away than that and you're good
Yes, and be sure to take your rifle and dryfire on unwitting passers by as well, ya know for practice
Is it weird I was excited at first cause I thought you were being a turbo autist like me and learning how to use a ww2 range finder?
Accurate rangefinding is hard, general rangefinding isn't that bad out to carbine ranges and most of us were born with the tools needed.
Distance between your eyes is ~1/10 the distance from your eye to your thumb when holding up an outstretched arm. Close one eye, hold out your thumb, now switch eyes, notice how the perspective of where your thumb is to distance targets shifts left/right, that is due to the offset between your eyes. So now put your target at the inner edge of one thumb, swap eyes, and look at the distance between the new inner side of the thumb and your target. Guess the distance between the two points and multiply by 10 to get your approximate distance to target.
ie. If we want to range a guy out in a field and make the (very) rough assumption he is 2 yards tall, we see the space between the thumbs is about 5x his height or about 10 yards. Multiply by out 10 offset and we know he is around 100 yards away.
You just need to know common reference heights of things in your environment like a residential story from floor to ceiling (not including roof) is usually 3 yards whereas commercial is generally 4. Cool now you can guess the distance to most buildings pretty easily using the height of what you are already looking at as a reference. Shit like that.
If the width between your "thumbs" is too much for you to be confident then use the distance of the midpoint between you and the target then multiply your result by 2.
You aren't going to be calculating accurate fire solutions at extreme ranges with this method, but its good enough within a few hundred yards to get a rough measure.
TLDR
Learn the rule of thumb
height of the average tree, building floor, cactus, person, etc. and guess. PSO-1 even had a handy rangefinder built in.
You can use a milliradian reticle in a scope to range targets
I did this about 2 years ago and have been in jail ever since.
Just eyeball it homosexual. If you have been to enough ranges that have distances of 100-600 yards, it gets pretty easy to range distance just by looking. I once visited a new range, and the 100 yard targets looked a little short to me. I remarked on this, and a guy whipped out a laser rangefinder and lazed his target and said, "Holy shit, it's only 96 yards." I was able to tell that just by looking at the targets for a few seconds. A difference of 4 yards is 12 feet, so not a very small amount really.
for a cheap but mostly effective option look at BUDKs brass range finders. they work pretty well, are cheap, and easy to carry. pairs well with a sks or mosin.
Learn how big things look at fixed distances, guess and check with your rangefinder. You lose the ability very quickly but also pick it up very quickly again. I got pretty good at ranging game out to 800 meters by sight at one point.
Get an 18th century rangefinder. Carry it around your neck. Use it every day. Nobody will have a clue what you are doing. After a while you won't need it to get close enough.