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<blockquote data-quote="SBruce" data-source="post: 464398" data-attributes="member: 21068"><p>Not trying to start an argument here, but I have a real life experience that happened about 15 years ago, that made me realize the standard "shoot to distance" or normal cosine type of calculation is not as precise as needed sometimes. </p><p> </p><p>Shooting rockchucks high up on a cliff. Laying flat on my back on basically level ground. Had my rifle proped up on 36" tall shooting sticks that were only about a foot and 1/2 from my armpit..........<strong>it was steep</strong>, and the line of sight distance was almost 400 yds. "Shoot to distance" would have been like 280 yds or something...............long story short, I held for the shoot to distance and was shooting way high. I had to come down another 3" (relative to the rockchuck) to make the hits.</p><p> </p><p>At 280 flat ground I was dead on, but at the angle I was shootin those chucks; I had to hold about 3" below them........dead on wasn't enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SBruce, post: 464398, member: 21068"] Not trying to start an argument here, but I have a real life experience that happened about 15 years ago, that made me realize the standard "shoot to distance" or normal cosine type of calculation is not as precise as needed sometimes. Shooting rockchucks high up on a cliff. Laying flat on my back on basically level ground. Had my rifle proped up on 36" tall shooting sticks that were only about a foot and 1/2 from my armpit..........[B]it was steep[/B], and the line of sight distance was almost 400 yds. "Shoot to distance" would have been like 280 yds or something...............long story short, I held for the shoot to distance and was shooting way high. I had to come down another 3" (relative to the rockchuck) to make the hits. At 280 flat ground I was dead on, but at the angle I was shootin those chucks; I had to hold about 3" below them........dead on wasn't enough. [/QUOTE]
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