Hunting Washington Forum
Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: jdb on January 26, 2010, 03:29:04 PM
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anyone site there guns in this way? I've been thinking that i will sight my rifles in accordingly? any thoughts?
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Yes, I do and I have had good luck with it. The only time I have had trouble is when shooting at a deer size animal thats right at the apex of the bullet path, generally right around 200 yards. Have killed a couple where I hit them high and broke their back. Remember if using the 8" circle as a guideline the bullet is around 4 to 4.1" high at 200 yards, if your holding middle of the deer it will result in a high hit.
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I was thinking of useing a 6" circle. how does one calculate the distances? or do you just shoot a whole bunch and figure it out?
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I do. It takes all the guess work out of shooting; the target is either in range or out. If in, shoot dead on, if out, get closer. I do MPB of 3” for modern rifles 4” for my ML.
Ballistics SW will help determine the apex, then just check that at the range.
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what is ballistics sw?
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Ballistics Software. I was going to give you a link but it seems to not be working.
http://www.eskimo.com/~jbm/calculations/traj/traj.html
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Try this:
http://www.jbmballistics.com/cgi-bin/jbmtraj-5.0.cgi
