Did you know that if you sight in your gun at 50 yards, you could have a difficult time hitting a deer at a farther distance? Something to think about prior to regular gun season.

If you sight in your gun at 50 yards, at 100 yards you would be almost 4 inches low and at 125 yeards, over 8 inches low. This is assuming you shoot a round ball fired at a velocity of 1800 fps.

If you sighted your gun in at 100 yards, you would be almost 2 inches high at 50 yards, dead on at 100, and at 125 only 3.5 inches low.

Now is you rifle going to be the same, maybe, but always consider that bullets do not travel in a flat tragectory, but more a bell shaped path.

Comments anyone...

Tomster

You should see a 44mag thru a spotting scope come into a target. It comes down on such a arch at 200 meters that you think it is coming straight down. You are right about the difference in range and bullet location. From what I have heard the flattest shooting round is the 7mm. Does anyone else know this as a fact??

I think you are right as far as larger calibers are concerned. I purchased a 7 mag a few years ago for that reason. Before I made my purchase I went to a couple of the ammunition makers web sites' and looked at the ballistics on the various rifles to help make my decision.

The 7mm Mag is a flat shooting round, but the Weatherby' s, Lazzeroni' s; and the various RUM' s are as flat, and flatter. Whether it' s enough to make a difference for most hunters at practical ranges; probably not, especially when you take into account the much higher price for ammo and recoil.

Lance

How flat a bullet shoots is directly proportionate to how fast it is launched from a barrel and it' s BC. A flat base 7mm bullet fired from a 7mm-08 is not going to shoot nearly as " flat" as a boat tail match .338 bullet fired from a 338-378 Wea.