Snipers correct for the Coriolis effect? Really?
I do quite a bit of rifle shooting. Daily. I do not daily take 500m - 1 km shots, but really, not many snipers do either.
The rotations that riflemen do have to account for is the rotation of the projectile relative to the wind. This is because depending or the rotation of the projectile, clock or counter clock, it will want to either climb up or down against the wind.
I have never, and I really mean never, heard talk of a person firing a projectile at over 3000 feet per second over a distance of around 1 km taking earth rotation 'whip effect', or Coriolis effect into account.
Wouldn't you also have to take into account the direction you were firing in?
I really have given up caring wether the Earth is a sphere, flat or a tube,( because that really has no bearing on me groking the game or working out how to reliably get out of it at will.) but your rifleman comment intrigued me.
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I do quite a bit of rifle shooting. Daily. I do not daily take 500m - 1 km shots, but really, not many snipers do either.
The rotations that riflemen do have to account for is the rotation of the projectile relative to the wind. This is because depending or the rotation of the projectile, clock or counter clock, it will want to either climb up or down against the wind.
I have never, and I really mean never, heard talk of a person firing a projectile at over 3000 feet per second over a distance of around 1 km taking earth rotation 'whip effect', or Coriolis effect into account.
Wouldn't you also have to take into account the direction you were firing in?
I really have given up caring wether the Earth is a sphere, flat or a tube,( because that really has no bearing on me groking the game or working out how to reliably get out of it at will.) but your rifleman comment intrigued me.
H