Is there an app or software for logging dope and predicting shooting solutions ?

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It occurred to me that all those dope book pages dont do me any good unless I could leaf thru them and find one with the exact same shooting conditions as the current day. Have a bud who has 3 ring binders full of dope that is little more than ancient history as he never refers to them for current day shooting solutions and by the time he could find a page with said conditions or close to it, the conditions would have changed.
 
It occurred to me that all those dope book pages dont do me any good unless I could leaf thru them and find one with the exact same shooting conditions as the current day. Have a bud who has 3 ring binders full of dope that is little more than ancient history as he never refers to them for current day shooting solutions and by the time he could find a page with said conditions or close to it, the conditions would have changed.

There's quite a few out there! Strelok Pro and Applied Ballistics are the two I'd recommend.
 
I crunched the numbers one time for all of my dope and found that temperature was the most significant factor in bullet trajectory. I made a table based on distance and temperature in 5 degree increments. So now I just check the temperature and dial accordingly. Barometric pressure, humidity, even altitude (I have never shot above 200' sea level) are negligible for me. All of this is based on an accurate and consistent load for that rifle. Wind on the other hand is anyone's guess. 🤣 My shooting life has gotten a lot simpler since I started shooting fixed distances too. One rifle is sighted in for 600 and the other at 900 yards with the challenge being shooting itty bitty groups at those ranges while under the clock. So dialing now is simply tweaking a few 1/10 of an moa either way (temp again). My PRS style rifles have nearly become safe queens.

Strelok pro is your friend too.
 
Barometric pressure, humidity, even altitude (I have never shot above 200' sea level)
This is key for why Temperature has been the biggest factor for YOU. When you’re basically at sea level, you remove a huge variable from the equation.

I think it’s pretty well agreed upon in longer range shooting circles that DENSITY ALTITUDE (not same as Altitude) is the primary factor when figuring a solution. StrelokPro, Applied Ballistics, etc. all do a crazy good job of predicting solutions when the right environmental inputs are entered.
 
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I have used both my dope and Density Altitude in my "tribulations" and there was very little difference for ME. As Tim stated, probably because I am near sea level. I think JimmyJames brings up a valid point as to the value of all that dope we tend to record. I have an individual little book for each of my rifles that I record everything in; dope, load information, velocities, BC, scope parameters, and whatever happens during the session. I find it very useful as a reference more than a go-to to find dope for a particular day. But It has saved my butt a few times. Once my phone died and I had nothing but I did have enough dope recorded to scratch out some come-ups and so forth. And all of that other data came in handy when I purchased my new phone and had to enter all of the pertinent data again. Imagine not having a velocity for that particle sweet load that you had worked so diligently to find. I simply grabbed my "little book", entered the velocity, BC, scope height, etc., and was up and running in minutes. And I have data for all of the previous loads I had tried in that particular rifle as well. Even when I clean it (one of my rifles tends to go weird on me after about 150 or so rounds and then needs a cleaning). Now when I see my groups go south I check the "little book" and see how many rounds down the bore since the last time it got a good cleaning. Sure enough, it's in that range.

If I'm correct, JJ8 asked if there was an app to record all of that dope and I'm not sure there is? At least I've never seen one. Strelok and the like only let you enter your variables once. I replace weather variables at the beginning of each session and I'm not sure whether I can save the previous stuff or not?
 
f I'm correct, JJ8 asked if there was an app to record all of that dope and I'm not sure there is? At least I've never seen one. Strelok and the like only let you enter your variables once. I replace weather variables at the beginning of each session and I'm not sure whether I can save the previous stuff or not?
The apps store your environment data used when you zero’d. Then, you input - or capture in various ways - current environment when you shoot. The purpose of the app is that it crunches the numbers for you on the spot.

I can tell you that my precision rifle was zero’d at ~2,200 ft, 67*, 57% humidity and 28.03 inHg baro pressure. That’s what is stored in StrelokPro.

When I shot the mile, I was at ~600ft, over 90* and pea soup humidity. all of that was captured and fed to the app via the phone’s weather app. StrelokPro’s solution was within .2 Mil of actual. It doesn’t save that environment data though.

You CAN and should enter/save muzzle velocity changes at various temps.
 
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I used Strelok Pro for years, (and it worked very well for me) then started shooting more long range PRS/NRL type matches and moved to nearly always using a Kestrel paired with AB. I've got the Elite Kestrel which has the AB solver, and also purchased a copy of the AB mobile app as well.

If you never plan to use a Kestrel then Strelok will likely do everything you'd ever want, and will do it pretty well. If you want tighter and more accurate environmental data with your DOPE then the kestrel / AB is the only way to go imo.
 
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This is key for why Temperature has been the biggest factor for YOU. When you’re basically at sea level, you remove a huge variable from the equation.

I think it’s pretty well agreed upon in longer range shooting circles that DENSITY ALTITUDE (not same as Altitude) is the primary factor when figuring a solution. StrelokPro, Applied Ballistics, etc. all do a crazy good job of predicting solutions when the right environmental inputs are entered.
^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^

IME, you need a dope card for diff temps, my winter and summer dopes are completely different

that said, DA matters the most when there is a delta
 
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