Long Range Shooting Simulation
ShooterReady.com offers an excellent computer simulation that lets you “shoot” three different calibers at virtual ranges out to 2000 yards–complete with sound effects and realistic scenery. You view the target through a 10-20x zoom scope and adjust windage and elevation as with a real scope. A FREE Online Demo is available that lets you practice with a 175gr .308, and also Windrunner .338 and .50 BMG. Atmospheric conditions and range distance change with each stage, so there is plenty of challenge. Warning–if you’re at work, this can be addictive once you get the hang of it.
You can practice Mil Dot ranging on 3 targets: A 12″ X 12″ swinging plate, a 30″ X 18″ knock-down plate, and a regulation 72″ X 19″ knock down plate. Each caliber has 70 range exercises, plus an advanced stage with 25 timed hold-offs, and moving targets.
The CD also includes “Interactive Classrooms” that teach you how to use Mil-Dot scopes and how to use a range card. The presentation on reading Mils and calculating target distances is very well done. It is much easier to learn interactively than by just reading a static manual. Below is a screenshot from the Mil-Dot Ranging “Classroom”.
Trust us, you can learn a great deal from the Free Demo. This is not just a shooter video game. The demo offers a variety of scenarios–enough to keep you occupied for quite some time. If you want to learn more, the full CD, with hundreds of scenarios, and five bonus stages, costs $43.95 from ShooterReady.com.
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I purchased this after playing with the trial version. It’s great. I learned a lot from the program and it’s fun.
This is an excellent program and I use it to keep up my former training with the mil-dot-reticle. I am also using their simulation for wind to check out some new windage charts I’ve created. This is definitely worth the money.
Unless Im missing something? When the wind was coming from the left in the demo I had to dial in “Right ” windage instead of “left” in order to hit the target? Weird.
Mark, On the wind meter in this simulator, the arrow points TOWARD the direction the wind is COMING FROM. It doesnt point the direction the wind is blowing. That has messed me up on the simulator far more than once.
I played with it, dont care for it. I dont feel that it is realistic at all. When you move the knobs the scope picture doesn’t move at all. The game is FAR easier than actualy shooting at the distances they are advertising. There is no mirrage, no light changes, it just isnt realist for me. I played it twice and got board of it.