Is this suppose to be something new?
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Yeah 60 minutes in a degree. Approximately 1” at 100 yds.
2” at 200 etc.
I hunt the NE. I use relatively short range lever guns. Dense woods gives very short shots generally. My Marlin 336 in .35 Remington will give me sub MOA groups at 100 yds. I adjust the sights for 2.5” high at 100 yards. I get groups around 2-3” low at 200. So you aim dead center chest at anywhere up to 200 yards it’s a dead deer.
My most accurate rifle is a reconstituted 03-A3 that had a cut receiver. A company in California bought these up cheap and made a recast receiver.
Bought this from a guy who just wanted to get rid of it. Had a horribly butchered stock as some sort of halfassed sporterization. Ugly. Had a sticky bolt too. Paid $50 for it two decades ago. Lapped the bolt in with valve lapping compound. Checked the headspace it was good.
This, for some reason, is a one ragged hole rifle with surplus Greek and Danish Ammo at 100 yds.
“If you look at how a bullet moves, it does so in an arc which is not a perfect one. As it travels further, the force of gravity becomes larger hence the decrease in velocity. “
Laughable ignorance.
Gravity does not slow the bullet, and does not increase with distance.
Does nobody study Newton anymore?
This is a prefect example of ‘competency bias’.
People listening to the news talking heads, or reading an article, tend to think the author knows what he is talking about.
But when you read something in an area that you know about, you realize how little they know.
And this applies to everything you see reported!
This article is just plain stupid in the way it describes gravity.
“Am Shooting Journal” tends to be made up of illiterate “hold my beer” type rednecks. The writing is terrible, and the reasoning isn’t much better than you’d find in a bar around closing time.