Thread: Bipod, uphill shooting issue.

Originally Posted by ChrisW

Imagine a right angle triangle like this.
You are at the bottom of the hill, and your target is at the top (or vice versa). If you range find the target without a corrected distance that accounts for the angle, it'll tell you the distance of A, and not the distance of B, but the distance of B is longer than A.

Basically when you're shooting up or down hill you are shooting over a longer distance than if you were shooting in a flat line, so you need to use a corrected distance when shooting up or down hill.

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Correction needed: the actual distance your projectile travels is the line "A", therefore you need to aim lower. Most uphill/downhill shots go over the target.
Secondly, you will get a different point of impact shooting over a bag, and using a bipod. Experiment with both over the same range on flat ground.