We were talking uphill downhill shooting - my comment was doesn't matter whether it is uphill or downhill compensation is the same - then foot goes in month I said aim high - but as you can see and as I know the bullet goes high - so Cdaddy was right for once aim low... Wolfhound came back and explained the whole thing and he was right - but me I had to look it up.... same as I am stuggling with those 200 yard 10mm 200 grain XTP's the other I am goingback tomorrow with a differnent gun just to prove to ME!

So anyway here is a line graph that will supplement Wolfhound's

You made his day SL and I am sure C-dad being such a gentleman, will never bring the subject up again...

Never.

Seriously though. People really should not overcompensate. It is kind of easy to do.

Remember, shooting downhill (or uphill) at a 45 degree angle, 100 yards by the laser rangefinder is like shooting 70 yards flat. That is a pretty steep incline.

Another example would be shooting at 150 yards at a 30 degree angle would be like shooting 130 yards on flat.

The moral is, if you are shooting at only slight uphill or downhill angles, there is very little difference.

The simple formula you can plug into your calculator is:

cosine (angle from flat) X actual distance = distance equivalent if you were shooting flat

A few years ago I took a 200 yd shot at about a 30-40 degree angle with my Omega. It read 201 on the rangefinder and since I knew where I was at 200 I just aimed a little lower. I didn't quite aim low enough as the bullet entered the top of the shoulder zipped through the length of her body and out the opposite buttock. I guess the trauma from the damage put her down as I never hit either lung. The only thing I might have hit is the spinal cord. It wasn't my best shot but it put her down.

I missed a cow elk twice with my bow when I was much younger. She was walking broadside down the hill from me. This was before rangefinders, but I estimated she was 30 yards. Shot and the arrow and went right over her back. As I was nocking my next arrow, I thought it through. "I know she is not less than 30 yards away, must have had a bad release." Shot the second time........shot over her back again, same exact spot. No more shots, I didn't deserve a third shot. I sat down, figured out what I did wrongand almost cried. I had never practiced that shot before.

That is one reason with a bow I always practiced out of tree stands. Now I am not one of them that go way up in trees, but still I wanted to be sure that where I aimed, I hit.

I had a friend with a bow do the same thing elk hunting C-dad. When he told the story you could tell he felt sick over missing such a shot, but that is what learning is all about.

I have never hunted out of a tree stand. I was walking an old logging road and I knew there was a herd of elk moving around in the area. I came around a corner and looked over the side of the road and there she was.

Yes, SICK, very well describes the way I felt. I still remember that moment as if it were yesterday and it was about 25 years ago.

All of the graphs are giving the oldrookie a headache. When in a tree....go low!