Lowlight Offers “W.T.F.” Advice to Tactical Shooters
Frank Galli, aka “Lowlight”, is the head honcho of Sniper’s Hide. In the video below, Galli offers a series of shooting tips he calls the “Long Range Shooting W.T.F”. No that’s not what you think it is — no cuss words are involved. “W.T.F.” stands for Wind, Trajectory, and Fundamentals of Marksmanship. To shoot well, Frank says, you first must gauge the wind correctly. Second, you must know the trajectory of your load in your rifle — i.e. know your ballistics. If you want to hit a target at long range, you must start with a rock-solid zero, determine an accurate muzzle velocity, and know the Ballistic Coefficient of the bullet. Plug all that into a good ballistic program (along with elevation, temp, and air pressure) and you should have your point of impact (within a click or two) out to 1000 yards.
Watch Video for Tips about Wind-Reading, Ballistics, and Shooting Fundamentals:
The third element of “W.T.F” is “F” for “Fundamentals of Marksmanship”. This actually involves multiple factors — body position (relative to the rifle), finding your natural point of aim, proper head alignment behind the scope, pre-loading the bipod, breathing modulation, trigger control, follow through, recoil management and more. Frank addresses all these “fundamentals” in the second half of the video, starting at the 3:40 time-mark.
The issue I have with shooting metal over paper/score targets is the V Bull on the metal target is so big that you do not really see where the accuracy issues in your rifle actually lie.
I’d like to see similar demonstrations but using a Fig 11 type target with the scoring areas clearly defined.
“LowLight” or “LowHeight” ?
More like “LightWeight”…
Yes, all these “precision” rifle seem to be tested on 3-4 MOA steel plates. I guess this proves something to someone.
Unknown distance is a different game then square range known difference shooting. You may b able to clean an F-class target at 1k but being able to hit even a 3-4moa target at some random range and condition on command is a skill in its own right.