Accuracy & Precision by Bryan Litz

[Dangermouse]

Or to give it its full tittle,

Accuracy and Precision for long range shooting - A practical guide for riflemen, by Bryan Litz.

Two things:

Firstly a warning should you be thinking of buying this book.
Having had two books by Litz previously I was aware how technical some of his work can be. It is no surprise to read that he comes from a rocket engineering background. His love of graphs, data and such is well evidenced in his books with most pages having at least one.
With this book he must have been on steroids!
Be warned, this is a very heavy technical book which splits the topics of Accuracy and Precision and looks at them closely, all backed up with page after page of data.
It is not bed time reading, or indeed toilet reading, as it is not the easiest book to pick up where you left it.

Secondly, has anybody managed to work their way through the book and found anything that has raised their game? I notice after around chapter 6 he starts talking about some fundamentals and leaves the ballistics behind a bit.
Is it worth fighting through to the end?

DM

[ovenpaa]

I did not even know it existed, maybe something to drop hints for....

[Scotsgun]

If its anything like his Applied Balistics book then I wouldn't bother. I'm an engineer; an aero engineer and I found his book a real trial to get through. At times his focus on the minutae is annoying whilst his leaps in knowledge plain infuriating.

It's like having a lesson from someone who you realise knows more about the subject than you but can't keep their focus or refuses to explain the whole of their formulae, before the theory.

[dromia]

I have dipped into his writings but found them a heid nipper.

I suppose he knows his stuff but found his writings useless unless you had the knowledge already to understand what you knew.

I don't know if he is but it read to me like your typical academic writing for peer review not for the ordinary chiel.

Anyway to save any grief for readers, at the end the butler did it.

[Alpha1]

I have dipped into his writings but found them a heid nipper.

I suppose he knows his stuff but found his writings useless unless you had the knowledge already to understand what you knew.

I don't know if he is but it read to me like your typical academic writing for peer review not for the ordinary chiel.

Anyway to save any grief for readers, at the end the butler did it.

I had good chuckle at that one. :shakeshout: :shakeshout: :shakeshout: :shakeshout: . Class Adam Class your choice of words is poetic.