Moondancer
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After reading "Point of Impact" (based on THR recommendations, I might add), I have a question about ballistics as mentioned in the book.
Specifically, it was stated by the author several times that when shooting uphill or downhill you had to hold over due to the effects of gravity.
This goes contrary to some old discussions I remember. It seems to me that the prevailing theories at that time were this:
Hold over when shooting uphill to combat the effects as gravity will pull your bullet down more than you think it will.
Hold under when shooting downhill as gravity will pull your bullet down less than you think it will.
IIRC, the answer to all this was that you had to judge bullet drop by "true" distance or maybe a better way to explain it would be by "time to target". Therefore the answer in both cases, either uphill or downhill, was that gravity's effect on bullet drop would be more than anticipated because your bullet was traveling more than the horizontal distance.
That would agree with the author's statement. Am I right in what I remember????
Specifically, it was stated by the author several times that when shooting uphill or downhill you had to hold over due to the effects of gravity.
This goes contrary to some old discussions I remember. It seems to me that the prevailing theories at that time were this:
Hold over when shooting uphill to combat the effects as gravity will pull your bullet down more than you think it will.
Hold under when shooting downhill as gravity will pull your bullet down less than you think it will.
IIRC, the answer to all this was that you had to judge bullet drop by "true" distance or maybe a better way to explain it would be by "time to target". Therefore the answer in both cases, either uphill or downhill, was that gravity's effect on bullet drop would be more than anticipated because your bullet was traveling more than the horizontal distance.
That would agree with the author's statement. Am I right in what I remember????