Thread: uphill and downhill shooting

Remember also when shooting at living things the path of your bullet threw the animal.
Animals stand upright no mater the slope they are on so if you are shooting steeply up or downhill at an animal standing broadside to you and the slope for instance your normal aim point on the animal(assuming you have the drops etc compleatly sorted already) say half chest depth for lung shot will enter at that point but angle up or down depending on shot threw the animal effectively making your shot higher than normal if the animal was above you and lower if below you.
This effect is really peanuts compared to the ballistic effects of angle and range but certainly worth consideration say shooting goats from bluffs either above or below and shorter ranges.
It is the shorter ranges where you will get the most angular change and it is important to change aim point accordingly.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Remember also when shooting at living things the path of your bullet threw the animal.
Animals stand upright no mater the slope they are on so if you are shooting steeply up or downhill at an animal standing broadside to you and the slope for instance your normal aim point on the animal(assuming you have the drops etc compleatly sorted already) say half chest depth for lung shot will enter at that point but angle up or down depending on shot threw the animal effectively making your shot higher than normal if the animal was above you and lower if below you.
This effect is really peanuts compared to the ballistic effects of angle and range but certainly worth consideration say shooting goats from bluffs either above or below and shorter ranges.
It is the shorter ranges where you will get the most angular change and it is important to change aim point accordingly.

That is something I had never taken into account, but I should have on my last trip down queenstown way as it had some extreme angles


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