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Old 06-07-2004, 11:38 PM
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Rugers7
 
Join Date: May 2004
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Default RE: Uphill / Downhill shooting

TXHunter and CalNewbie are correct, shooting at steep angles either up or down will cause your bullet to strike high. It is basic geometry and physics, hypotenuse of a triangle = less distance = less time for gravity's affect on trajectory. I can give a real life example that just happened three weeks ago. I was sighted in dead on at 100 on the range, went hunting for a blackie and he was 220yds up a mountain. He was turned and had head up hill, i put right on spine and was dead on at 220. If it was flat, that same shot would have hit him in the rear.
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