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Old 09-24-2004 | 03:14 PM
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Phade
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Default RE: I figured it out!!! Treestand height affecting shot.

ORIGINAL: thenuge15

There was a post about how height affects your shot, and we learned velocity vectors in physics today so I figured it out. There are a lot of variables that would change this, but here is a pic I made in paint.



I was not able to get a very precise reading because I had round my degree measurments as well as fps measurements, because my initial measurments were only two significant digits. I had to go back and change the numbers because of this, this resulted in the jumpiness of the text so I apologize for that.

I still think bending at the waist is the biggest problem though.
now is it able to calculate the distance change?
The part that alsways threw me off was the height of the animal. If you say the shot is 20 yads away, would the height of the animal figure into the picture? I mean we arent not shooting at a flat spot on the ground, rather a target at 20 yards aproximately X amount of inches above the ground.

Thats the one that gets me.
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