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What temperature should you input if you ammo temperature is different from ambient temperature?

Once you turn on the MV temp table, the MV will automatically change in direct correlation with the values input into the table as data points. If your ammo is at a different temp than ambient environmental temps, either colder or warmer, turn the MV temp on and then go to environment and change the environment temp to match the ammo temp. This automatically changes the MV in the gun profile to match the ammo burn rate variability at whatever temperature it is based off the data points you have input into the table. Then turn the temp table to OFF. Then go back and update the environment to capture current atmospherics. By turning the table off prior to updating to current atmospherics, we lock in the MV associated with the burn rate of the powder at whatever the temp of the ammo is, and then by updating we get the atmospherics required for ballistic calculations.