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Ballistic
Explorer™ -- proven accurate in real world conditions Dexadine has been developing software for Oehler Research since 1988. The same ballistics engine found in Ballistic Explorer is at the heart of Oehler's Personal and Professional Ballistics Labs, Model 43 and System 83, respectively. One of the most technologically advanced features of the Model 43 and System 83 is the acoustic target. The acoustic target seems almost magical in its ability to plot the exact location of every shot on a target just by listening to the supersonic bullet as it passes through the plane of the target. However, the target can't work without knowing the bullet's exact velocity at the target. Because there's nothing at the target to measure the bullet's velocity, it has to be calculated by our ballistics engine. The predicted shot location can only be accurate if the calculated velocity is accurate. Knowing how accurate the acoustic target is tells how accurate our ballistics engine is. Back in November 1992, Shooting Times published their test of Oehler's then new Model 43. The article is Oehler's Wizardry by Rick Jamison. Here's a small excerpt concerning the acoustic target. "One person in the group fired a five-shot string at 100 yards on a target posted immediately behind the acoustic frame. While the shooter was downrange retrieving his target, Ken Oehler plotted his own target on a piece, graph paper to illustrate the accuracy of the unit. Ken placed an X where the computer indicated each bullet had passed through the frame. When the shooter returned with his target, Ken placed the target with bullet holes over the System 43--predicted Xs on the graph paper. Amazingly, the holes aligned perfectly; there was an X at the center of each bullet hole. It made a believer out of me!" Since 1992, Model 43 and System 83 users have often done the same kind of accuracy testing to make sure their set ups were functioning correctly and some have shared their data with us. This data is often for 100 yards, but sometimes it's out to 600 yards, under real world conditions of altitude, temperature, humidity, and wind. Our ballistics engine's accuracy is put to the test on every one of these shots -- no other external ballistics software has so much proof of it's accuracy under real world conditions. With Ballistic Explorer you can know the results are accurate -- with others, you can only hope the results are accurate. |