Don,
I think I understand what you’re saying, but respectfully, have to disagree. In your scenario you are shooting at a distance between the Point Blank Range and the Supplemental range. It is that simple. By aiming your rifle high on the target, you are making an educated guess, and that is all.

I’m sorry, but I’ve never heard of Maximum Point Blank Range, and you have not convinced me that it exists. Further to suggest that a “Maximum Point Blank Range” exists, would mean that there would also be a minimum, and now I’m really confused!

Point Blank range is a mathematical equation. If you have a gun and you decide that maximum trajectory is your first priority and you don’t want the projectile to go more than one inch above the line of sight, you have just predetermined all the other factors, assuming of course using the same projectile in all situations. Your near zero has just been decided, along with the maximum trajectory range yards, the zero range yards, the point blank range yards and the supplemental range yards, whether you understood or not, it all happened, it was all established by that one decision. But, if you decided that using the same gun and same projectile that you wanted to now shoot farther away and needed to move the zero range out further you could pick pretty much any distance you want, but you just moved your maximum trajectory up to higher than one inch, and predetermined all those other factors again, whether it was understood at the time or not.

There is no Maximum pointblank range and there is no minimum point blank range. Point blank range is only one measurement, and it is when the projectile falls below the line of sight to a distance that is equal to the distance of the maximum trajectory.

Respectfully,

KP