I'm reading the latest issue of G.I. Joe and there's a panel where a character is on his back, shooting off a grenade launcher to try and hit a sniper. As he's doing it, he's saying to another character "Time for some Kentucky Windage, Bro". This brings the obvious question to mind - what is Kentucky Windage? The answer is rather simple but led somewhere interesting. Basically, Kentucky Windage is adjusting a shot to take wind into account without using any physical tools such as an adjusted scope. You're taking a calculated 'guess' of how the wind will adjust your shot and then shooting into the direction of the wind with the assumption that the wind will alter the shot to where you want it to be. The somewhere interesting that it led was this US Army training video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdRLfO9CU2U Great depiction of what Kentucky Windage is, terribly racist/culturalist/whatever execution. But it was the 1940's so what do you expect. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338397 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
