Reading The Wind

Author : Linda K. Miller,Keith A. Cunningham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781510739741

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The Wind Book for Rifle Shooters by Linda K. Miller,Keith A. Cunningham Pdf

All other factors being equal, it is your ability to read the wind that will make the most difference in your shooting accuracy. The better you understand the behavior of the wind, the better you will understand the behavior of your bullet. Now, champion shooters Linda K. Miller and Keith A. Cunningham reveal everything they wish they’d known about reading the wind before they started shooting (instead of having to learn as they went along) in concise, easy-to-read terms and accompanied with handy ninety-five diagrams. The Wind Book for Rifle Shooters contains straightforward guidance on the simple thought process they use to read the wind, the techniques and tactics they use to win matches, and the underlying skills that support both. Let these champions show you how to put together a simple wind-reading toolbox for calculating wind speed, direction, deflection, and drift. Then learn how to use these tools to read flags and mirage, record and interpret your observations, and time your shots to compensate for wind. Other topics covered include: Analyzing shot placement Recording and record keeping Confidence and following your hunches And much more! The essential wind-reading basics taught in this book will absolutely improve your shooting skills, whether you're a target shooter, a plinker, a hunter or a shooting professional.

Author : Jim Owens
Publisher : Loose Cannon
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781939812292

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Reading the Wind by Jim Owens Pdf

Updated 2013 ebook version As a competition shooter you can control many things, but you cannot control the wind conditions. To excel in any outdoor shooting sport you will need to learn how to compensate for the effects of the wind. Written by Master Sergeant Jim Owens, his 20+ years of Marine Corps Shooting Team experience will give you the knowledge of how to read, judge and adjust for the wind - in any type of rifle competition. Jim’s book presents a simple system for judging the speed, direction and value of the wind. You'll learn to read the mirage, how to accurately read the range flag, estimate wind speed, wind strategies, effects on the bullet and much more. The coaching techniques section will help your own performance and that of others when shooting in the wind. Also included are 22 sets of wind charts for a variety of calibers (.223, .308, 6.5-08, 6.5-284, .300 Win. Mag.), bullet weights, and for both Across the course and Long Range. There are 80 wind charts in total ! "My scores have improved drastically. I thank you for your books. High Power shooting is enjoyable when you do better." —Neal Trubitt “Your series of books and tapes have helped me make the first daunting steps and I entered my first competitive event ever, the 2004 NRA High Power Week Competition at Camp Perry. Your Data Book is the best that I have seen and all the information that you had put together and your personal commitment to Juniors in the sport is indeed commendable.” —Steven Field Keywords: windage,rifle,high power,clicks,adjustment,range,chart,training, practice,wind speed,kentucky,hold,sight picture,aim,competition,NRA

Author : Hazel Hutchins,Gail Herbert
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773213897

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The Truth About Wind by Hazel Hutchins,Gail Herbert Pdf

A vividly imagined story about the importance of telling the truth, even if it means losing something you love. When Jesse finds a toy horse and makes it his very own, his imagination runs wild. This horse is the fastest horse in the whole world, so Jesse names him Wind. He can’t wait to race him across the prairie (the kitchen table) and over deep canyons (the bathtub). There’s just one problem: Wind doesn’t actually belong to Jesse. He was left behind accidentally by his real owners. And though at first Jesse is full of joy as he plays with Wind, soon he starts to feel uneasy—Jesse knows Wind’s real owners must miss him. But how can Jesse explain to his mother exactly where Wind came from? And is there a way to make everything okay again? The Truth About Wind is a dynamic story about the courage it takes to face up to a lie, brought to life by a trio of celebrated creators.

Author : Anne Herbauts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 159270221X

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What Color Is the Wind? by Anne Herbauts Pdf

A blind child questions all he encounters--a dog, wolf, elephant, mountain, bird, stream, and tree--about the color of the wind. Each responds differently, with a shape, color, smell, texture, or idea. Each page displays a visual and tactile palette of cutouts, textures, colors. It is a sensory experience that makes the invisible experiential, ending with the wind as the pages fly. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Anne Herbauts expresses an original world in each of her books. Awake to the richness of the world, endlessly curious, and rigorous in her work, Anne has written and illustrated over twenty books.

Author : Pat Hutchins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442454026

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The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins Pdf

A rhymed tale describing the antics of a capricious wind. The wind blew, and blew, and blew! It blew so hard, it took everything with it: Mr. White’s umbrella, Priscilla’s balloon, the twins’ scarves, even the wig on the judge’s head. But just when the wind was about to carry everything out to sea, it changed its mind! With rhyming verse and colorful illustrations, Pat Hutchins takes us on a merry chase that is well worth the effort.

Author : Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684526574

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The Boy and the North Wind: A Tale from Norway by Suzanne I. Barchers Pdf

In Norway, the cold winds blow from the north. But when the wind blows away the flour carried by the baker’s young son, he sets out on a journey to insist it be returned. Themes: perseverance, intelligence.

Author : Bill Martin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-08-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152013849

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Old Devil Wind by Bill Martin Pdf

On a dark and stormy night one object after another joins in making eerie noises in the old house.

Author : Heather Forest
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684440238

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Contest Between the Sun and the Wind: An Aesop's Fable by Heather Forest Pdf

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Based on a fable from Aesop, the Sun and the Wind test their strength by seeing which of them can cause a man to remove his coat, demonstrating the value of using gentle persuasion rather than brute force as a means of achieving a goal.

Author : Scott Huler
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307420558

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Defining the Wind by Scott Huler Pdf

“Nature, rightly questioned, never lies.” —A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, Third Edition, 1859 Scott Huler was working as a copy editor for a small publisher when he stumbled across the Beaufort Wind Scale in his Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. It was one of those moments of discovery that writers live for. Written centuries ago, its 110 words launched Huler on a remarkable journey over land and sea into a fascinating world of explorers, mariners, scientists, and writers. After falling in love with what he decided was “the best, clearest, and most vigorous piece of descriptive writing I had ever seen,” Huler went in search of Admiral Francis Beaufort himself: hydrographer to the British Admiralty, man of science, and author—Huler assumed—of the Beaufort Wind Scale. But what Huler discovered is that the scale that carries Beaufort’s name has a long and complex evolution, and to properly understand it he had to keep reaching farther back in history, into the lives and works of figures from Daniel Defoe and Charles Darwin to Captains Bligh, of the Bounty, and Cook, of the Endeavor. As hydrographer to the British Admiralty it was Beaufort’s job to track the information that ships relied on: where to lay anchor, descriptions of ports, information about fortification, religion, and trade. But what came to fascinate Huler most about Beaufort was his obsession for observing things and communicating to others what the world looked like. Huler’s research landed him in one of the most fascinating and rich periods of history, because all around the world in the mid-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in a grand, expansive period, modern science was being invented every day. These scientific advancements encompassed not only vast leaps in understanding but also how scientific innovation was expressed and even organized, including such enduring developments as the scale Anders Celsius created to simplify how Gabriel Fahrenheit measured temperature; the French-designed metric system; and the Gregorian calendar adopted by France and Great Britain. To Huler, Beaufort came to embody that passion for scientific observation and categorization; indeed Beaufort became the great scientific networker of his time. It was he, for example, who was tapped to lead the search for a naturalist in the 1830s to accompany the crew of the Beagle; he recommended a young naturalist named Charles Darwin. Defining the Wind is a wonderfully readable, often humorous, and always rich story that is ultimately about how we observe the forces of nature and the world around us.

Author : Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781947447950

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The Wind by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer Pdf

"Part primer, part parable, part elegy for the depth and decency we sacrifice daily to the order of self-possession, The Wind invites us to enjoy it inventively .... A philosopher coming up against the limits of philosophy's forms of communication ("Philosophy, without being in touch, is always abstract"), Bendik-Keymer courts a thoughtfulness in which wonder practically circumvents theory. Energized by "utopian anger," he invokes the clearing, shaking energies of wind against the violent social rigidities we accept as normal. The wind, impersonal, is the figure through which to keep the dynamic inter-personal in view. ... I admire this book's inventiveness, its willingness to break with discipline in pursuing a wider vision of accountability." (Sarah Gridley, author of "Weather Eye Open" and "Loom") A process begun in Pisa, Italy in April of 2016 during a workshop on political theory in the Anthropocene, The Wind An Unruly Living is a philosophical exercise (askêsis, translated, following Ignatius of Loyola, as "spiritual exercise"). In his exercise, Bendik-Keymer throws to the void: the ideology of self-ownership from a society of possession. By using the Stoic kanôn, the rule of living by phûsis, he follows an element. Unhappily for the Stoic and happily for us, the wind is unruly. A swerve of currents through a social fabric, it's full of holes, all holely. Stretch and stitch as you want, it might settle more shapely tattered into light, but it will never become whole. The wind's only holesome.

Author : Virginia Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0807587354

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The Wind Plays Tricks by Virginia Howard Pdf

"When a storm mixes up all the animal's voices, they must find a way to swap sounds!"--

Author : Arthur Dorros
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09
Category : Winds
ISBN : 0812489284

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Feel the Wind by Arthur Dorros Pdf

Explains what causes wind and how it affects our environment. Includes instructions for making a weather vane. Color illustrations.

Author : Bryan Litz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ballistics
ISBN : OCLC:937738939

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Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting by Bryan Litz Pdf

Author : Robert N. Munsch,Suzanne Duranceau
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992-02
Category : Fantasy
ISBN : 081248102X

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Millicent and the Wind by Robert N. Munsch,Suzanne Duranceau Pdf

In a gentle lyrical tale, lonely Millicent lives on a mountain top with her parents and her only companion is the wind.

Author : Gill Lewis
Publisher : Eerdmans Books For Young Readers
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0802855148

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A Story Like the Wind by Gill Lewis Pdf

As a group of refugees huddles together in a rubber dinghy, one of them uses his violin to weave their stories together and give them hope for freedom in the future.