Author Topic: question about meters compared to yards? (Read 566 times)

madmikeray · « **on:** January 02, 2005, 07:17:17 PM »

this mayb 1 of hte stupidest questions you guys my hear on here, but i would like to know the meter table compared to the yardage.. when people say 100 meters i have no clue as to how many yards that is. i always go buy yardage..please help me figure the comparison out :roll: thanks,,,,,.

Keith L · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2005, 10:43:43 PM »

100 meters is 109.36 yards.

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html is one of the sites on the web that has metric conversion.

Good luck.

Graybeard · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2005, 02:52:10 AM »

It's not absolutely precise but is really close to always just add 10%. Take the number of meters and add 10% more to get the number of yards. Thus 100 meters equals 110 yards. From the very precise number listed in keith's post you can see how close you really come and it's quick and easy to always come up with the number of yards if you know the number of meters using this round off formula.

Questor · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2005, 04:21:28 AM »

GB's right. That's the rule of thumb. For 10 meter air pistol matches we set the target carriers to 33 feet. That's close enough, considering the mechanical error of target carriers. But you can see that at long ranges, like 300 meters, the difference between yards and meters distance starts to matter.

madmikeray · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2005, 06:59:37 PM »

thanks for the info guys!!

i love this site!

king nero · « **Reply #5 on:** January 06, 2005, 06:12:25 AM »

1 yard = 0.9144 meters
1 meter = 1.094 yards

the 10% rule is acceptable for distances when talking rimfire distances...

Quote from: Keith L

100 meters is 109.36 yards.

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html is one of the sites on the web that has metric conversion.

Good luck.

hey, for me they ain't metric conversions, they're american conversions!

Greybeard · « **Reply #6 on:** January 06, 2005, 07:53:01 AM »

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the 10% rule is acceptable for distances when talking rimfire distances...

Why would you suggest it's only good for short distances?

1000 meters equals 1094 yards

Using my 10% rule it would have told you 1100 yards or a difference of 6 yards at 1000 meters. I'd say that's close enough for darn near anything having to do with shooting.

king nero · « **Reply #7 on:** January 06, 2005, 08:49:00 AM »

First I ment to say at levergun distances, to be honest, but then I realised this was the rimfire forum so I changed it to rimfire distances.
I didn't want to imply that the 10% rule wasn't valid, it was just a bad choice of words.

lousy explanation, I'm aware of that.
I'm truly sorry if I gave you the wrong impression... but as I'm dutch, I don't have that extra "touch" when it comes to write or interpret the english language...