Jeff Siewert

I was at a test one time at Aberdeen with the service, the services.

And when they were shooting at a threat vehicle with a long rod and we're taking radar data on this thing.

And just prior to impact, the trace went hog shit wild.

I mean, it just like it like it hit hit a brick wall.

You know, we went down to the target and had a look at it.

And and the rod had piled in sideways.

I'm like, that bullet must have hit something.

The Marine Corps major started tearing down branches up range until he found one where we had actually hit it.

And so he bitched at the range people.

The next day we came back and they had trimmed all the branches off.

So basically, hitting that branch tore the fins off the projectile, made it unstable, and that caused the problem.

But there you are.

There you are.

And then my last slide here, the factors that are important for long-range shooting.

Basically, there are two error categories when you're talking long-range shooting.

The first is random error.

And that causes scatter and the fall of shot around a displaced mean point of impact.

Okay.

And the mean point of impact is displaced due to bias error.

So the bias errors you can correct, okay?