I've started building a data logbook for my rifle and have completed load data and drop tables based upon my field data I've collected thus far and the information regurgitation from JBM ballistic software. Over the past two matches at Palo Alto it seems that the software is dead on for the elements so I'm pretty confident in that department.
This book will now accompany me and log each and every shot taken from the rifle so I can compare my calls to the impacts and hopefully make sense of the information so I can improve. For those of you who shoot in the competitions and are already doing this, do you log each shot and position after you've taken it, recall each from memory once the string is finished, or do you just remember general adjustments you may have made and note them afterwards? It seems like at the end of a 20 shot string I still have enough time to jot down the info, so I don't see why I couldn't be doing that in between the shots anyway.
This book will now accompany me and log each and every shot taken from the rifle so I can compare my calls to the impacts and hopefully make sense of the information so I can improve. For those of you who shoot in the competitions and are already doing this, do you log each shot and position after you've taken it, recall each from memory once the string is finished, or do you just remember general adjustments you may have made and note them afterwards? It seems like at the end of a 20 shot string I still have enough time to jot down the info, so I don't see why I couldn't be doing that in between the shots anyway.