Dead Crab Aiming System

I really wish we could have an educated discussion without so many people jumping up to add nothing. For heaven's sake, if you're not intersted, there is no need to let us know - simply not replying to the thread is sufficient for me to tell that you're not interested!
 
Patrick Johnson said:
That's an interesting technique for measuring approximate angles, but I don't get how knowing the approximate angle translates to an "aiming system".

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[Edit: Dead Crab's post crossed mine in the mail:]



I think your angle measuring technique is clever, but is finding an aiming point from the degrees of cut angle really practical?

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And besides, he is making subconscious adjustments in order to determine that cut angle. So the system really doesn't work....he just thinks it does.

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Another easy way to determine an angle is to imagine a clock face on the table (or look at your wrist watch). One o'clock is 30 degrees. Two o'clock is sixty degrees. Three o'clock is 90 degrees. Each minute is 6 degrees.
 
Sorry to get you into this, Dead Crab. I love it. And I like your take on it too, jondrums. It is very easy, like Dead Crab said, to locate the fraction on the object ball that corresponds to the angle.

I think fractional systems are underappreciated here. You have 4 easily found aiming points on each side of the object ball to cover, at most, 27 degrees. I plan to post a new thread to show this when I get a chance.
 
Correction

Here's the correction of the diagram. Dead Crab says the blue line should be perpendicular to the CB-OB line.

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Thanks Jondrums and Bluepepper. I've never ever worried about the angles of cuts, I just shoot them. When people tell me "It's a 45 degree cut" I don't really pay attention, because I don't think about shots that way. I'm going to try this out.
 
I don't know squat about math but it seems to me that if I can visualize the distance and visualize double the distance and visualize the amount of angle deduced from visualizing all the other data, then I can probably just skip the system and visualize the angle and/or the ghost ball.

But it does help me find, and then visualize, the "line", if I get behind the ob, like is shown in the original post of this thread, and find the point on the rail that points to the target.
 
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