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<blockquote data-quote="Novus9594" data-source="post: 530912" data-attributes="member: 35689"><p>Did you chronograph your bullets so you know the FPS out of your barrel? Factory specs sometimes assume different barrel lengths than the shooter is using. </p><p> </p><p>Also, were you shooting at an angle? If you're shooting at an angle and you forgot to put that into your software, your shots will hit high (it's a complex geometry thing to show, but instead of gravity acting straight down like when you shoot level, gravity acts at an angle other than perpendicular when shooting at an angle and therefore causes the bullet to drop LESS than expected). </p><p> </p><p>What was the weather like on this day as well? Was it substantially hotter than when you zeroed? Was your elevation higher than when you zeroed? What about the barometric pressure... was it lower? At 450 yards, these shouldn't have TOO much effect, but they could be contributors (especially if the differences in temperature and elevation are large).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Novus9594, post: 530912, member: 35689"] Did you chronograph your bullets so you know the FPS out of your barrel? Factory specs sometimes assume different barrel lengths than the shooter is using. Also, were you shooting at an angle? If you're shooting at an angle and you forgot to put that into your software, your shots will hit high (it's a complex geometry thing to show, but instead of gravity acting straight down like when you shoot level, gravity acts at an angle other than perpendicular when shooting at an angle and therefore causes the bullet to drop LESS than expected). What was the weather like on this day as well? Was it substantially hotter than when you zeroed? Was your elevation higher than when you zeroed? What about the barometric pressure... was it lower? At 450 yards, these shouldn't have TOO much effect, but they could be contributors (especially if the differences in temperature and elevation are large). [/QUOTE]
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