A way to attach dope cards to your rifle

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I was looking for a way to keep a handy dope card with my rifle that was easy to read. When predator hunting or competing in a match I often found myself using a ballistic app all the time.

I originally printed a dope card and tied it to my scope but it didn't always have the right dope in all conditions, plus it would often not be oriented the way I wanted it. I use density altitude and wanted a card for every 1000' that I could easily switch out.

I can not get tables to export from my Shooter app so I used Strelok Pro for this. I made up the tables I wanted and then emailed them to myself. From my email I copied the table to a spreadsheet program and tweaked it a little bit adding a spin drift foot note and highlighting every other line for contrast.

My old card had elevation corrections on one side and wind on the other side in 4mph increments up to 20mph. I didn't have enough room for that so I used an idea I got online and just put the 10mph hold. 10 is really easy to convert to other speeds. I printed these out on heavy paper and cut them out.

I went to Canadian Tire and bought a 15' roll of 2" velcro for $25. It was way more than I needed. I was a little leary about the stuff I got because the hook side looked almost smooth but it turns out it very sticky. I purchased laminating sheets from the dollar store but I used them a bit differently than it was meant to be used.

I cut velcro strips to the size I wanted and then stuck the cards on the hook pieces. I used only the sticky side of the laminating sheets and stuck that over the cards. That way I had the velcro glue and the laminate glue sticking together. Very sticky!

I did this for all the cards I wanted for the rifle plus I made some extras in smaller increments that I just laminated without velcro. I also left room in the margin to wrote notes with a sharpie.

Here's a crap cell phone picture:

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You can stick these on a velcro loop patch on your rifle like I did or even a shooting bag with velcro patches. The Mil Dot Master has a spot to attach ballistic data and it would go there perfectly. I also used some of the velcro to reattach my Short Action Precision 2 shell holder and it worked better than the stuff that came with it.


So that's my idea. Other people have done it, it's not very original. I'm ways asking questions on this forum and thought this might help someone else who didn't want to have pull out their phone or write numbers on their arm all the time.

Things that would make it better would be:

-a ballistic app that let's you print tables or export them as spreadsheet files
-waterproof paper to print on
-color ink for my stupid printer

I hope this gave somebody an idea.

Have fun shooting!
 
Alternatively, you could put the velcro on one of these and just swap out the cards.

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I have dope cards in my wrist coach that gives me dope for different inclines/declines at different DAs. Also have my ballistics calculator. On the rifle I just put a generic dope chart at DA=2000. Use a Brother PT-2430 PC I got off Amazon for under $50.



Its the black label.

Here is one I had on my scope for Service Rifle

 
Those are a lot better than my idea kombayotch. I kind of wanted to see what other people were doing too.

The one thing I wanted to stay away from was a wrist coach as I use this rifle for hunting too and didn't want to have to grab anything but my rifle and maybe my rangefinder when I went.
 
I design labels for my turrets with the distances that match each 1/2 moa.

for a 15 moa per rev take the diameter of the turret times 3.14 to get the circumference and that's how long your printed label needs to be

divide that by 15 to get the moa spacing's and fill in the distances to match.

I tape them one with one full wrap of scotch tape.

I do something similar for wind.

You can use ms word excel paint or better yet ms publisher to do it.

I usually use an old copy of corel draw so I can get more elaborate but you don't need to.
 
The card holders like what football players use for their plays....straps to your arm. To me it would be easier to see and more practical than attaching it to the rifle
 
yotawheeler said:
The card holders like what football players use for their plays....straps to your arm. To me it would be easier to see and more practical than attaching it to the rifle
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Me too, plus you can take it off the wrist and slide/strap it on the firearm until next time. I still keep a reminder inside my flip up scope cap out to about 600.

I do like the idea of the velcro however. Pretty handy.
 
yotawheeler said:
The card holders like what football players use for their plays....straps to your arm. To me it would be easier to see and more practical than attaching it to the rifle
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This is a better solution. I personally use the Rifles Only slap card and it works great. A dope card strapped to the side of your rifle won't do you much good once you are in firing position, unless you are using something like a Sidewinder, which you can see your firing solutions without breaking your position.
 
BadAsMo said:
I design labels for my turrets with the distances that match each 1/2 moa.

for a 15 moa per rev take the diameter of the turret times 3.14 to get the circumference and that's how long your printed label needs to be

divide that by 15 to get the moa spacing's and fill in the distances to match.

I tape them one with one full wrap of scotch tape.

I do something similar for wind.

You can use ms word excel paint or better yet ms publisher to do it.

I usually use an old copy of corel draw so I can get more elaborate but you don't need to.
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That's a really neat idea. I wish there was a ballistic app that allowed more customization of range cards that would help a person set something like that up.
 
I used two methods.
On my lens cap, I hade my 100-600metre elevation in 50metre intervals. for quick adjustments
And after trying multiple ways to attach more data onto my rifle itself. I ended up printing out a 3"x 5" data card with multiple winds and elevations. I laminated it. Then Gun taped the edges and tied it off to the butt stock of my rifle with about 7" of cord. This allowed me to have my card wherever I wanted it while shooting.

Its a bad photo but you can kind of make it out to see what I mean.
 
yotawheeler said:
The card holders like what football players use for their plays....straps to your arm. To me it would be easier to see and more practical than attaching it to the rifle
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That would work well and it would be easier to see but when I am out coyote hunting it's more piece of gear in have to put on. When it is attached to the rifle I just have to grab that.

The scope cap thing I really like. I may try to print something for that.
 
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