Shooting in the trees
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Can your range finder adjust for angle? If not, the base of the tree is your ballistic range - assuming the base of the tree is level with you.
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^^^^^^ what @humbled.ag said ^^^^^
With the angle, it is a further shot up, than just the distance to the tree. If the tree is 40ft tall and treebase 30ft away, your target is 50ft.
With the angle, it is a further shot up, than just the distance to the tree. If the tree is 40ft tall and treebase 30ft away, your target is 50ft.
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Math is correct;
But, if you look at the physics involved, which I am not going to elaborate on, the projectile is affected by the horizontal distance to the target, not the slope distance. That is why all current rangefinders give you the horizontal distance to the target. If that was not the case, they would have stuck to the slope distance and not included an inclinometer in them.
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You still have to range the target for it to compesate the slope. Physics is the geometry. A□ + B□ =C*□. Also known as the 345 rule in carpentry. A is distance to tree, B is height in tree, C is actual.target distance.
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Range the target, then aim right inside the bottom of the kill zone using whatever holdover/clicks you arrived at for that distance.
Barring a wind misread or an operator issue (yanked trigger) , it'll usually go down doing the above.
Barring a wind misread or an operator issue (yanked trigger) , it'll usually go down doing the above.
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Recent misses during inclined shooting had me pondering same thing. Airguns of Arizona has an "Airgun Calculator," section, fifth one down is, "Inclined Shooting Correction Calculator." With "slope degree" and "line-of-sight-to-target," from rangefinder, all I needed was "ballistic coefficient" and "muzzle velocity," to complete calculations. Realized this was not the issue since "correction" was in fraction of inches. Turns out just needed to relax the process, misses gave way to hits. WM
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A video I watched said range the target and then use 90% of said distance.
such as a 30 yard target x 90% = 27yards that’s what you would range the
target at.
such as a 30 yard target x 90% = 27yards that’s what you would range the
target at.
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No, if i can avoid it I range the shot and note the inclination on my regular scoped gun. The zulus on my impact does all that stuff for me.
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Some ballistic apps (like" SHOOTER") have a look angle feature by using the cell phone to measure the angle then the correct dope solution is automatically given. Been easy and works well or I'd been missing those shots.
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