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<blockquote data-quote="Ian M" data-source="post: 186823" data-attributes="member: 25"><p>aitch,</p><p>To be honest with you I have never given angle shooting much thought, other than what I heard from instructors on shooting courses and what I saw the time we shot at an angle at 300 yards and essentially nothing much happened. I guess you could say I blindly believed what they told me, but I certainly should not have expected others to. You have a much more inquisitive mind. </p><p></p><p>Hopefully some guys who are into exterior ballistics can explain this better, I look forward to learning more myself. </p><p></p><p>I always think of myself on a cliff, the critter way below on the next mountain. My bullet would be the hypotenuse of the right triangle, but the real distance is the base of the right triangle. Now I believe you are correct about the varying time of flight for the distance the bullet travels. We say wind drift is directly related to time of flight. Why is not drop, damned if I can say. How in heck that works for shooting uphill, again I just believed what I was told. Sorry about not having a better answer, maybe I can get one from my industry contacts or from the many sharp guys on this forum. That is why I hang out here, to learn. </p><p></p><p>Perhaps I could get Ward Bryan, the owner of Sniper Tools and maker of the ACI to chime-in. I will send him a note tonight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ian M, post: 186823, member: 25"] aitch, To be honest with you I have never given angle shooting much thought, other than what I heard from instructors on shooting courses and what I saw the time we shot at an angle at 300 yards and essentially nothing much happened. I guess you could say I blindly believed what they told me, but I certainly should not have expected others to. You have a much more inquisitive mind. Hopefully some guys who are into exterior ballistics can explain this better, I look forward to learning more myself. I always think of myself on a cliff, the critter way below on the next mountain. My bullet would be the hypotenuse of the right triangle, but the real distance is the base of the right triangle. Now I believe you are correct about the varying time of flight for the distance the bullet travels. We say wind drift is directly related to time of flight. Why is not drop, damned if I can say. How in heck that works for shooting uphill, again I just believed what I was told. Sorry about not having a better answer, maybe I can get one from my industry contacts or from the many sharp guys on this forum. That is why I hang out here, to learn. Perhaps I could get Ward Bryan, the owner of Sniper Tools and maker of the ACI to chime-in. I will send him a note tonight. [/QUOTE]
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