Need some help shooting downhill

[Hooter]

People always tend to focus on elevation and the changes that happen there. No one ever thinks about that 1/2" of windage being off to one side or the other at 100 yards and what that looks like at 300+ yards.

Right on. Lots of wind out there at long ranges

[2thDoc]

i cant read all this bc I dont understand ballistics and stuff...but did anyone ask how you "knew you missed?"

I am an asshole, apparently, but I absolutely will not sit at the clubhouse when someone comes in and says "i missed."

I have found lots of people's misses before.....

so, before you get it in your head that you have to "aim low" (for the bowhunting crowd), I would regain my confidence at the range and fully expect to kill every damn deer I shoot at with a high powered rifle.

edited to add: i read it and see someone else mentioned it. you are still overthinking it. that's a poke and lots of variables. maybe move your stand? ha, just kidding since that horse has been beaten senseless.

[SCswampCAT]

Good quality optics/rifles all with handloads on top of that.

Now explain how the hell you're a walmart hunter if you handload and dont shoot with a Tasco on top... sounds like you may have just rushed the shot.


Sorry, some people are just ignorant..

[SCswampCAT]

One more thing. When you go to the range Don't put your rifle in a shooting vise. Maybe just one sand bag on forearm and not a bag under the rear of your stock. Play fair. For long range shooting at deer I also use shooting stick under the rear of stock. This way your forearm is on shooting rail and back of stock is supported by shooting stick. Almost rock steady.

I carry a trigger stick anytime i climb up in any stand. Never realized what I was missing..

[ccleroy]

Good quality optics/rifles all with handloads on top of that.

All that means jack if you can shoot. Just sayin'