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20moa base, adjusting for scope line of sight
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<blockquote data-quote="marksman1941" data-source="post: 2900026" data-attributes="member: 68542"><p>Well you're not tricking anything really. The scope alignment to bore relationship is what dictates your point of impact. The closer to parallel the relationship, the lower the bullet will impact. The closer to perpendicular the relationship (clearly never nearly perpendicular, but you are technically adjusting in that direction) the higher the bullet will arc, which will give you the ability to aim your scope at your desired point of impact at further distances. There's no tricking your brain of anything, though. It's just the math of that relationship. </p><p></p><p>Regarding angled shots, you're right in that drops aren't as extreme as shooting level. Weird as it sounds, the bullet only "cares" about the horizontal distance. Most modern range finders have an angle adjustment function that will tell you the distance to adjust/shoot for, instead of the actual linear visual distance. The more extreme the angle the more pronounced this effect becomes, both uphill and down. People tend to aim too high on uphill and low on downhill shots expecting gravity to pull the bullet downward, but that's not how it works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marksman1941, post: 2900026, member: 68542"] Well you’re not tricking anything really. The scope alignment to bore relationship is what dictates your point of impact. The closer to parallel the relationship, the lower the bullet will impact. The closer to perpendicular the relationship (clearly never nearly perpendicular, but you are technically adjusting in that direction) the higher the bullet will arc, which will give you the ability to aim your scope at your desired point of impact at further distances. There’s no tricking your brain of anything, though. It’s just the math of that relationship. Regarding angled shots, you’re right in that drops aren’t as extreme as shooting level. Weird as it sounds, the bullet only “cares” about the horizontal distance. Most modern range finders have an angle adjustment function that will tell you the distance to adjust/shoot for, instead of the actual linear visual distance. The more extreme the angle the more pronounced this effect becomes, both uphill and down. People tend to aim too high on uphill and low on downhill shots expecting gravity to pull the bullet downward, but that’s not how it works. [/QUOTE]
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