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The_v@lemmy.world 6 hours agoIf you have a regular 30.06 bullet with a rifle sighted in at 200 yards, it will hit around 5" lower than you aim at 250 yards depending on the gun and conditions.
If you have it sighted in at 300 yards and aim for center mass right the bullet will hit around 5" above where they are aiming.
In both conditions the bullet hits the neck area.
SGforce@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Also, I don’t know if people train for downward sloped shots. He may have over/under corrected.
The_v@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Not usually in my experience. Almost all target shooting is on relatively flat ranges. Especially not for ranges that short.
For those that don’t know, when firing down the slope the effect of gravity decreases the bullets velocity loss. So the bullet transverses the distance in less time and drops less over a given distance.
When firing up a slope the bullet loses velocity due to gravity. So it drops more due to the extra time it takes for the bullet to transverse the distance.