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Shooting uphill vs downhill
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<blockquote data-quote="geargrinder" data-source="post: 243033" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>The only thing the guy said that was correct was that you need to make corrections for up and down shots.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't matter if it is up or down. Gravity only affects the horizontal distance that the bullet travels. It will always be a shorter distance than the distance between the rifle and target.</p><p></p><p>This is why we want the cosine angle or cosine factor. You use this to calculate the horizontal distance that the bullet will travel.</p><p></p><p>That is about as simple as it can be answered without going into trig and geometric mathematics.</p><p></p><p>If you want the nut and bolts of the math and how it all works, ask Eaglet. He loves that stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="geargrinder, post: 243033, member: 6705"] The only thing the guy said that was correct was that you need to make corrections for up and down shots. It doesn't matter if it is up or down. Gravity only affects the horizontal distance that the bullet travels. It will always be a shorter distance than the distance between the rifle and target. This is why we want the cosine angle or cosine factor. You use this to calculate the horizontal distance that the bullet will travel. That is about as simple as it can be answered without going into trig and geometric mathematics. If you want the nut and bolts of the math and how it all works, ask Eaglet. He loves that stuff. [/QUOTE]
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