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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian Bushman" data-source="post: 1229171" data-attributes="member: 41122"><p>If im understanding you correctly you are looking for the horizontal distance in an angled shot, instead of the line of sight distance or hypotenuse. </p><p></p><p>There are a few methods for this with the most accurate being to input the distance and look angle into a ballistic calculator and let it solve it for you. </p><p></p><p>The next most accurate method that im aware of is the improved riflemans rule. </p><p>Here you would take your measured distance, find the drop for that distance, multiply the drop by the cosine of the angle for the corrected drop. </p><p></p><p>A simpler method is the riflemans rule. Here you take the measured distance multiplied by the cosine of the angle, then just simply look up the dope for that distance. </p><p></p><p>Bryan litz's book "applied ballistics for long range shooting" goes into these methods in great detail and explains their shortcomings as an accurate firing solution compared to using a ballistic calculator.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian Bushman, post: 1229171, member: 41122"] If im understanding you correctly you are looking for the horizontal distance in an angled shot, instead of the line of sight distance or hypotenuse. There are a few methods for this with the most accurate being to input the distance and look angle into a ballistic calculator and let it solve it for you. The next most accurate method that im aware of is the improved riflemans rule. Here you would take your measured distance, find the drop for that distance, multiply the drop by the cosine of the angle for the corrected drop. A simpler method is the riflemans rule. Here you take the measured distance multiplied by the cosine of the angle, then just simply look up the dope for that distance. Bryan litz's book "applied ballistics for long range shooting" goes into these methods in great detail and explains their shortcomings as an accurate firing solution compared to using a ballistic calculator. [/QUOTE]
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