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How close is the cosign rule in slope shooting?
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<blockquote data-quote="WiscGunner" data-source="post: 1986388" data-attributes="member: 97288"><p>Everyone enjoys hunting and shooting from different perspectives.</p><p></p><p>Sextants and slide rules are still useful but I don't see many people using them anymore because there are much more accurate and faster methods available. Perhaps mathematics fans want to do long form calculations to add to the hunting experience. Just not my cup of tea.</p><p></p><p>Kentucky windage, imho, is not appropriate for angled long distance shooting but this is not an ethics debate or an archery discussion. I suppose if we put on our SHTF hat we should all bring protractors to back up our cosign indicators or Tubb DRi's mounted on our rifles. Again, this might add an additional factor of fun and adventure to the hunt for some people, just not for me.</p><p></p><p>With the advent of computers we are afforded the ability to make increasingly more accurate and flexible data cards for our rifles. "Playing" with these calculators at home before a hunt like a kid with an abacus means we are more familiar with our "dope" and can create "rules-of-thumb" for distance, wind, slope, etc for our rifles setups.</p><p>ie: my 7ss is a 9mph gun (500yrds is .5mil @9mph) Elevation is distance squared to 500yrds (400yrds: 4x4=16 Elevation is 1.6mil). I know these things because I play with my computer and verify on range.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Computers shouldn't be feared or ruled out but utilized and familiarized in advance to make the odds of success go up. Computers quickly help us find out what mph our setup is, or a simple drop formula for medium ranges, etc.</p><p></p><p>Personally I see no point in having an entire weather station of instruments attached to my rifle when a pocket computer does it cleaner, more accurately and faster but I will never tell someone else what they can/can't do. If some amateur meteorologis wants to combine his hobby of hunting, weather and astronomy in the field, more power to them. Me, I use a computer and blue painters tape and that works for me. Your milage may vary. Do what makes the hunting experience good for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WiscGunner, post: 1986388, member: 97288"] Everyone enjoys hunting and shooting from different perspectives. Sextants and slide rules are still useful but I don’t see many people using them anymore because there are much more accurate and faster methods available. Perhaps mathematics fans want to do long form calculations to add to the hunting experience. Just not my cup of tea. Kentucky windage, imho, is not appropriate for angled long distance shooting but this is not an ethics debate or an archery discussion. I suppose if we put on our SHTF hat we should all bring protractors to back up our cosign indicators or Tubb DRi’s mounted on our rifles. Again, this might add an additional factor of fun and adventure to the hunt for some people, just not for me. With the advent of computers we are afforded the ability to make increasingly more accurate and flexible data cards for our rifles. “Playing” with these calculators at home before a hunt like a kid with an abacus means we are more familiar with our “dope” and can create “rules-of-thumb” for distance, wind, slope, etc for our rifles setups. ie: my 7ss is a 9mph gun (500yrds is .5mil @9mph) Elevation is distance squared to 500yrds (400yrds: 4x4=16 Elevation is 1.6mil). I know these things because I play with my computer and verify on range. Computers shouldn’t be feared or ruled out but utilized and familiarized in advance to make the odds of success go up. Computers quickly help us find out what mph our setup is, or a simple drop formula for medium ranges, etc. Personally I see no point in having an entire weather station of instruments attached to my rifle when a pocket computer does it cleaner, more accurately and faster but I will never tell someone else what they can/can’t do. If some amateur meteorologis wants to combine his hobby of hunting, weather and astronomy in the field, more power to them. Me, I use a computer and blue painters tape and that works for me. Your milage may vary. Do what makes the hunting experience good for you. [/QUOTE]
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