Cheechako, nope....well kinda'
The bullet is drifting through the crosswind, picking a new flight path. It's point is RIGHT of center and it's flight path is gradually working left.
Then it leaves the wind......... BOOM, it's in still air...... WITH the new direction still on it.
YES it hits almost 10moa off, but it's point is realigned.
It hits the still air with it's nose RIGHT of center so of course it now feels a wind on it's left side. So it turns it's nose left to balance on the new airflow..... the new "headwind"......... It fishtails a liddle bit and centers on it's new flight path and continues "straight" on it's new flightpath. The new flight path IS NOT parallel to the old one.
It's really not much different than keeping a car pointed down a slippery road. The bullet "countersteers" when it's headwind changes.
It can only balance on what it feels.
Wind drift is an artifact of this balancing act.
al
The bullet is drifting through the crosswind, picking a new flight path. It's point is RIGHT of center and it's flight path is gradually working left.
Then it leaves the wind......... BOOM, it's in still air...... WITH the new direction still on it.
YES it hits almost 10moa off, but it's point is realigned.
It hits the still air with it's nose RIGHT of center so of course it now feels a wind on it's left side. So it turns it's nose left to balance on the new airflow..... the new "headwind"......... It fishtails a liddle bit and centers on it's new flight path and continues "straight" on it's new flightpath. The new flight path IS NOT parallel to the old one.
It's really not much different than keeping a car pointed down a slippery road. The bullet "countersteers" when it's headwind changes.
It can only balance on what it feels.
Wind drift is an artifact of this balancing act.
al
