eli5 Why is air humidity a factor in long range shooting?

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eli5 Why is air humidity a factor in long range shooting?

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Because humidity adds drag to the arrow, imagine putting a steel ball in a fish tank full of water and then without water, obviously the water one will take longer to sink since it has to “cut” through water while the air one only has to “cut” through air.

*not to scale but same idea.

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