For all of you newcomers, you may have missed out on this post.
Several months ago HighRocker was good enough to share a link to a Ballistics Program he developed.
If you download it and save it to your computer, you can play with it as much as you like.
It calculates velocity, energy, drop (or rise above the line of sight), wind drift.
For what I wanted it is perfect and best of all it is free.
After downloading it, enter the values in any order. As I recall, v=velocity (FPS), c=caliber (enter the ball diameter, not the bore size), w=weight(grains)(as I recall, it calculates this for you based on the ball diameter you entered for caliber if you don't enter a weight), x=crosswind (MPH) ?=help (in case you forget what these entries are), and F (return) stands for FIRE and starts the program.
To print it, I used the "screen grab" copy and pasted it into a "paint" window. I could print it from there.
Below is the link
http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/mlexperiments/rbballistics/rbballistics.html
The effects of a crosswind on a round ball was one of the big suprises to me, so try putting a 5 MPH crosswind in and check out the ball deflection at 100 or 200 yards.
Have fun!
Several months ago HighRocker was good enough to share a link to a Ballistics Program he developed.
If you download it and save it to your computer, you can play with it as much as you like.
It calculates velocity, energy, drop (or rise above the line of sight), wind drift.
For what I wanted it is perfect and best of all it is free.
After downloading it, enter the values in any order. As I recall, v=velocity (FPS), c=caliber (enter the ball diameter, not the bore size), w=weight(grains)(as I recall, it calculates this for you based on the ball diameter you entered for caliber if you don't enter a weight), x=crosswind (MPH) ?=help (in case you forget what these entries are), and F (return) stands for FIRE and starts the program.
To print it, I used the "screen grab" copy and pasted it into a "paint" window. I could print it from there.
Below is the link
http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/mlexperiments/rbballistics/rbballistics.html
The effects of a crosswind on a round ball was one of the big suprises to me, so try putting a 5 MPH crosswind in and check out the ball deflection at 100 or 200 yards.
Have fun!
