After attending her first Appleseed, my daughter was still a bit confused about minutes of angle, and didn't entirely understand how to translate what she saw on the target into sight adjustments. She's 13 years old, and hasn't yet learned in school some of the geometry that might help her to understand the math behind it, so I wrote up a (hopefully) easy to understand, essentially math-free explanation of minutes of angle, and wanted to get some feedback.
The article is posted here What's In A Minute? (http://www.rimfireessentials.com/Whats-In-A-Minute_b_3.html), and I hope you guys (and gals!) can take a look and let me know what you think! If anyone is interested in using this you're more than welcome too - let me know and I'll be happy to post a PDF copy which can easily be saved and printed.
Love the flashlight metaphor. Teaching IMC this weekend to a youth-heavy group; I'll bring a flashlight out and help them visualize it, conditions permitting (it's a covered range so I'm optimistic we'll have enough shadow).
Brilliant! in every sense of the word. I am going to use your metaphor from now on. Thank you for sharing. LS6
Very good article. Thanks.
Sweet simplicity. I can relax into that. Thank you!
Credit where credit is due, the flashlight analogy is one I first remember hearing at an Appleseed shoot in Toccoa earlier this year. Mechanic was the one who did IMC at that shoot and be did a great job!
One of the 'ah ha' moments I had with MOA/IMC was why there's an angle at all. Once you introduce the idea that your line of sight is straight but because of gravity we must ANGLE the barrel up to cross our line of sight - voila.
Quote from: Kimber Custom on August 18, 2014, 07:54:23 PM
One of the 'ah ha' moments I had with MOA/IMC was why there's an angle at all. Once you introduce the idea that your line of sight is straight but because of gravity we must ANGLE the barrel up to cross our line of sight - voila.
Ah Ha! +1
Quote from: Kimber Custom on August 18, 2014, 07:54:23 PMOne of the 'ah ha' moments I had with MOA/IMC was why there's an angle at all. Once you introduce the idea that your line of sight is straight but because of gravity we must ANGLE the barrel up to cross our line of sight - voila.
I've had awesome success using a squirt gun to illustrate that point. I typically do it during KD but I may try to work it into IMC.
As a Gardener, I've used the analogy of watering a row of plants with a hose and the actions one must take when "reaching out" to the next plant by adjusting the angle of the hose (barrel / come ups / etc). The squirt gun... :)
Love the squirt gun example! That's perfect!