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Why a high shoulder shot?
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<blockquote data-quote="kcebcj" data-source="post: 194726" data-attributes="member: 10391"><p>Ebd10</p><p> </p><p> Your right and your wrong. If a bullet was spent it's vertical fall would be greater than its horizontal movement. </p><p> </p><p> If you keep your calculations within a bullets kill zone you will find that the horizontal movement is huge compared to the fall or vertical movement of the bullet.</p><p> </p><p> A 338 depending on the load with a 250 gr. bullet with a muzzle velocity of 2800 fps has about 372 inches of drop at a 1000 yards with a 200 yard zero. Its velocity at that range is about 1150 fps. If you do the math you will find that there is only about .124 inches of fall per foot of lateral movement in 3000 feet. So if your target was 2 feet thick there would be about .248 inches of difference from where the bullet entered and where it exited at a 1000 yards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kcebcj, post: 194726, member: 10391"] Ebd10 Your right and your wrong. If a bullet was spent it’s vertical fall would be greater than its horizontal movement. If you keep your calculations within a bullets kill zone you will find that the horizontal movement is huge compared to the fall or vertical movement of the bullet. A 338 depending on the load with a 250 gr. bullet with a muzzle velocity of 2800 fps has about 372 inches of drop at a 1000 yards with a 200 yard zero. Its velocity at that range is about 1150 fps. If you do the math you will find that there is only about .124 inches of fall per foot of lateral movement in 3000 feet. So if your target was 2 feet thick there would be about .248 inches of difference from where the bullet entered and where it exited at a 1000 yards. [/QUOTE]
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