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Post by Medicine Hat » Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:31 pm

After this weekend, I was just wondering if anybody out there has done any studies about how much windage, and which direction to allow for if one were shooting through a tornado.
Several small ones in this area over the weekend in west central MO.

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Post by Bullseye » Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:39 pm

I've shot through some pretty gusty winds, even a few dust devils, but I don't think I'd be hanging around to shoot through a tornado. I'm pretty sure I'd be imitating a prairie dog and finding underground cover.

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Post by Medicine Hat » Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:21 pm

Right you are Sir.
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Post by bgreenea3 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:04 am

I may have shot in monsoon like weather to qualify for work.... and I may shoot in a monsoon today... but not so much in a twister.


It is an interesting question. If you shoot in the exact center of the tornado would the swirl on the way out counter the swirl on the way in? And would your bullet tumble in the turbulence?
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Post by bearandoldman » Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:50 am

bgreenea3 wrote:I may have shot in monsoon like weather to qualify for work.... and I may shoot in a monsoon today... but not so much in a twister.


It is an interesting question. If you shoot in the exact center of the tornado would the swirl on the way out counter the swirl on the way in? And would your bullet tumble in the turbulence?
very interesting, but who cares?
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Post by Bullseye » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:59 pm

bgreenea3 wrote:I may have shot in monsoon like weather to qualify for work.... and I may shoot in a monsoon today... but not so much in a twister.


It is an interesting question. If you shoot in the exact center of the tornado would the swirl on the way out counter the swirl on the way in? And would your bullet tumble in the turbulence?
You'd have a better chance of hitting the Great and Powerful Oz if you shot into the twister. Besides there's a lot of debris swirling around a tornado when it is on the ground and I think you'd be more likely to strike some of that than anything else.

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Post by bearandoldman » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:31 pm

little Greener, you can be the test shooter??
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Post by bgreenea3 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:56 pm

we haven't had a decent tornado in Kalamazoo since the early 80's, I was just a tiny greener then....
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