On Super Bowl Sunday, Walter and Donny weren’t ass to cushion being force fed commercials and psyops like Alex Delarge in A Clock Work Orange. Hell No! They were dick in the dirt engaging in the oldest and most pure American Pass Time, long range bowling. Long range bowling is part science and part art, with the science part being aligning a ballistic model with the actual trajectory of a bullet through the air and the art part being the observation and assessment of wind at multiple points on a bullets flight path. Combing these to different facets and a bowler scores hits, have one and not the other and a bowler does not make it out of the proverbial round robin. To isolate and practice the artistic part of this equation, Walter and Donny set up a reduced C-Zone steel (8.75 inches by 14.75 inches) at 838 yards and practiced bracketing wind calls and synchronizing shots with their 6.5 Creedmoor Bolt Guns. At this range, the steel was 1 MOA wide, accounting for very little error in the wind call. By shooting with different wind holds, Walter and Donny were able to see which wind call was correct and make adjustments accordingly. In the ever changing conditions of the hills above Malibu, often by the time Walter and Donny made and adjustment and sent another two rounds down range, the wind had changed. This is a great training tool and a hell of a good time. Smaller targets are cheaper, easier to pack around and allow a bowler to practice at less range than a full sized target. The More Walter Learns, the less he knows.
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