Thread: How to calculate shooting angle?

Originally Posted by stagstalker

Yes just a unhelpful "back in my day". Sorry I'm going to bite again..

These days I am aiming for a specific spot with my projectile at all ranges. Back using max point blank range and aim low it was a matter of just trying to connect with the big bit. My father taught me to hunt and shoot but these days I have plenty of things that I can teach him.

now listen here young whipper snapper
some of us still use a point blank range and rather than just shooting for the big bit..the specific spot as it were is actually just a area about the size of a basketball..that 8" circle....
your mans brace n bit story has LOTS of relevance...... indeed a flat battery OR as in the OPs case a modern gear failure or posibly a eye dee ten tee operator error (write that numerically) being able to revert to a more simple way of doing stuff has much merit
again I ask..at that range with a super lazer beam prc 6.5 why was any calculation needed??? looking at simple drop chart would suggest a very small drop out of that 8" circle so only small elevation/kentucky windage required........ that need to take quickly shot would demand this...
this past weekend I was away with group using both map n compass and gps and cellphones..... great to be ABLE to use both...
Im well aware your a bloody good shot and will be able to teach your younguns how to do the same.... possibly also teaching a fall back method isnt a silly idea too.
and what the heck is this aiming low bit all about???? if my projectile never goes more than 3.5" above my Xhair..at what stage would I need to aim low????175ish on steep slope perhaps.... but my Xhairs would still be in the bit I want to hit,just posibly low inside it LOLstill on specific spot as it was.