doverpack12
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Which distance is the correct one to use for ballistic calculators? I usually use Shooter and get good results but I’ve been shooting in the mountains more lately.
My thinking is it doesn’t matter as long as the inputs are entered correctly but maybe at longer range or shooting setups with a lot of drop it does. The way I see it you have distance as an input and look angle. Now if I put in the corrected distance for the angle and then put a zero look angle that should be the same as line of sight with the appropriate look angle. What I don’t know is if the ballistic calculator is actually accounting for the parabolic path and angle of that path in relation to the angle to the target. If that’s the case I would say line of sight and look angle is correct or more accurate.
Just seems there has to be a reason shooters add angle cosine devices to their rifles and I can’t seem to find the answer why.
My thinking is it doesn’t matter as long as the inputs are entered correctly but maybe at longer range or shooting setups with a lot of drop it does. The way I see it you have distance as an input and look angle. Now if I put in the corrected distance for the angle and then put a zero look angle that should be the same as line of sight with the appropriate look angle. What I don’t know is if the ballistic calculator is actually accounting for the parabolic path and angle of that path in relation to the angle to the target. If that’s the case I would say line of sight and look angle is correct or more accurate.
Just seems there has to be a reason shooters add angle cosine devices to their rifles and I can’t seem to find the answer why.