Spade5
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I am a handgun shooter for the most part and do not hunt or shoot my AR past 100 yards and that is on more or less level ground so please humor me on this.
I was watching the movie Joe Kidd the other night. There was a bad guy up on some rocks who was shooting down on the good guys with a scoped rifle. Clint Eastwood assembles a scoped rifle that he had never shot before. So he watches for the smoke when the bad guy shoots and appears to count how long it takes to hear the round strike presumably to get the range. Then he seems to make some sort of adjustment to his scope and takes the bad guy out with one shot.
So if you are shooting at a target that is above you or below you, do you adjust your point of aim?
I seem to remember back in 1969 when I was in Infantry school getting ready to go to Nam that you either aimed above or below. Of course they also told us things like the M-16 round will rise when fired when in fact your trajectory is an arc. The enemy can use our 7.62 ammo but we cannot use theirs.
I was watching the movie Joe Kidd the other night. There was a bad guy up on some rocks who was shooting down on the good guys with a scoped rifle. Clint Eastwood assembles a scoped rifle that he had never shot before. So he watches for the smoke when the bad guy shoots and appears to count how long it takes to hear the round strike presumably to get the range. Then he seems to make some sort of adjustment to his scope and takes the bad guy out with one shot.
So if you are shooting at a target that is above you or below you, do you adjust your point of aim?
I seem to remember back in 1969 when I was in Infantry school getting ready to go to Nam that you either aimed above or below. Of course they also told us things like the M-16 round will rise when fired when in fact your trajectory is an arc. The enemy can use our 7.62 ammo but we cannot use theirs.