Coriolis for Long Range Shooting

February 20, 2025 - Reading time: 2 minutes

The coriolis effect isn't normally considered for anything less than 1000 yards, and depends a lot on target size. A great guntuber, TiborasaurusRex, covered this long before Flat Earth took off as a phenomenon in his videos. His firing solutions are good enough to hit a beer can in one shot at over 1000 meters:

Here's his lessons on Coriolis. Great stuff. This includes a reference to a field artillery manual from 1981 which shows both rotational and azimuthal corrections at various ranges:

These generally only work out to a click or maybe 2 clicks on your scope, and generally things like wind are going to quickly overtake that adjustment at range.

Here's flat earth interest over time:

Here's a recent video from Rex on Flat Earth which I hadn't seen until I was looking at this!

He is a Christian and from everything I've gathered a very good man. I really like what he says here. Sounds like he even agrees with moon landing fakery theories but is just tired of flat earth.

If you ever happen to read this, Rex, thanks for Long Range 101 and for making so many great videos over the years!!

I would love to see an experiment from the flat side using rifles to shoot different directions (North and West for instance) on a sled. Show me that without adjusting for Coriolis at say 1500 yards that you can consistently bullseye the target in any direction.