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<blockquote data-quote="BillR" data-source="post: 572221" data-attributes="member: 462"><p>I might of missed my calculations in the fact that the deer was moving and the flight time . The deer did not seem to be moving that fast or I would of passed on the shot. Actually a slow walk is what it seemed like. But if I didn't get the follow through right between the time the bullet left the barrel and the time it got to the target the deer might of moved enough to make it just seem to hit low and might have been due to the ever increasing distance.</p><p></p><p>One thing I do know though was both hits on the deer were centered up and down when I finally hit him on the 3rd shot and 4 shot. The 3 shot was a bit to the right but not by much. The 4 shot was spot on but was not moving when I shot. I shoot skeet quite a bit and use to be a lot more so never even gave the moving target a thought. This was also the first time for my spotter and me to work together and totally new to him. </p><p></p><p>One thing that really amazed me was the fact that my heart rate didn't even go up while shooting. Just nice and calm like shooting at targets. All I heard in my head was I can do this. </p><p></p><p>Leica has a red dot next to the square target box if it is set on Meters rather than Yards and is easy to tell if it changes. It hadn't. </p><p></p><p>I have been talking with Ernie from specialty handguns since shortly after getting home trying to figure this out. He and I have know each other for a lot of years and he has no problem telling me I am dumb when I do something dumb. He thinks it was a combination of differences in Altitude, Barometric Pressure, Inclination and temp. I think next year I am going to have to have some sort of weather station (Kestrel) to correct for it all. With 3 different shooters that day all shooting low there must of been a heck of a difference in BP from the storm coming in. And the altitude change and possibly a humidity change and the inclination angle might of added to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BillR, post: 572221, member: 462"] I might of missed my calculations in the fact that the deer was moving and the flight time . The deer did not seem to be moving that fast or I would of passed on the shot. Actually a slow walk is what it seemed like. But if I didn't get the follow through right between the time the bullet left the barrel and the time it got to the target the deer might of moved enough to make it just seem to hit low and might have been due to the ever increasing distance. One thing I do know though was both hits on the deer were centered up and down when I finally hit him on the 3rd shot and 4 shot. The 3 shot was a bit to the right but not by much. The 4 shot was spot on but was not moving when I shot. I shoot skeet quite a bit and use to be a lot more so never even gave the moving target a thought. This was also the first time for my spotter and me to work together and totally new to him. One thing that really amazed me was the fact that my heart rate didn't even go up while shooting. Just nice and calm like shooting at targets. All I heard in my head was I can do this. Leica has a red dot next to the square target box if it is set on Meters rather than Yards and is easy to tell if it changes. It hadn't. I have been talking with Ernie from specialty handguns since shortly after getting home trying to figure this out. He and I have know each other for a lot of years and he has no problem telling me I am dumb when I do something dumb. He thinks it was a combination of differences in Altitude, Barometric Pressure, Inclination and temp. I think next year I am going to have to have some sort of weather station (Kestrel) to correct for it all. With 3 different shooters that day all shooting low there must of been a heck of a difference in BP from the storm coming in. And the altitude change and possibly a humidity change and the inclination angle might of added to it. [/QUOTE]
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