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<blockquote data-quote="BrentM" data-source="post: 2345290" data-attributes="member: 61747"><p>Hey I was 11 and 12b..... I am low speed high drag now tho. </p><p></p><p>I think the premise for the OP is simply trying to understand angle shots and the science behind it. While standard rifleman's rule, los vs angle compensation, does work within certain accuracy standards, the improved version will be more precise but how much is dependent on angle and distance etc. Can be a lot or a little. I've come to the conclusion that we LRH guys need to be more precise than any one. It's just my personal opinion as I value animals and quick deaths more than I value a score off a steel plate. I see more people scratching their heads over angle comp, wind, and areo dynamic jump, then other subjects with an exception that I'll clarify later. Technology has helped us with accurate LRF's, LRF's with ballistic apps, and of course phone apps that we can study and run scenarios off of. I think all the tech is bad@ss and I geek out over it. However, I am also the guy who wants to know more of the why behind it all not just the result spit out from a computer. In the advanced long range courses this is the stuff we dig deeper into. The why, what it looks like via illustration, and then the field application.</p><p></p><p>Here is my take on the OP's potential reason for a miss tho. At 500,the elevation for 10 degrees is only 1 to 1.5" or .25 moa. He mentioned high winds but gave no specifics..... making some assumptions here....... so If wind was 20 mph he needed to correct about .5 down. At this point he was needing .75 moa correction to hit his aim point. Add one more thing, the plot twist, what was his shooting position? Many people do not practice positional shooting so his rifle alignment may have been off which can easily throw .25-.5 error in to the impact point. Again, huge assumptions and we know what assuming gets ya.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrentM, post: 2345290, member: 61747"] Hey I was 11 and 12b..... I am low speed high drag now tho. I think the premise for the OP is simply trying to understand angle shots and the science behind it. While standard rifleman's rule, los vs angle compensation, does work within certain accuracy standards, the improved version will be more precise but how much is dependent on angle and distance etc. Can be a lot or a little. I've come to the conclusion that we LRH guys need to be more precise than any one. It's just my personal opinion as I value animals and quick deaths more than I value a score off a steel plate. I see more people scratching their heads over angle comp, wind, and areo dynamic jump, then other subjects with an exception that I'll clarify later. Technology has helped us with accurate LRF's, LRF's with ballistic apps, and of course phone apps that we can study and run scenarios off of. I think all the tech is bad@ss and I geek out over it. However, I am also the guy who wants to know more of the why behind it all not just the result spit out from a computer. In the advanced long range courses this is the stuff we dig deeper into. The why, what it looks like via illustration, and then the field application. Here is my take on the OP's potential reason for a miss tho. At 500,the elevation for 10 degrees is only 1 to 1.5" or .25 moa. He mentioned high winds but gave no specifics..... making some assumptions here....... so If wind was 20 mph he needed to correct about .5 down. At this point he was needing .75 moa correction to hit his aim point. Add one more thing, the plot twist, what was his shooting position? Many people do not practice positional shooting so his rifle alignment may have been off which can easily throw .25-.5 error in to the impact point. Again, huge assumptions and we know what assuming gets ya. [/QUOTE]
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