My daughter at 18-years old is a pretty good shotgun shooter. She went with a boyfriend to shoot his rifle - never having shot one.
He had a 30-06.
“I did good - I missed the gong the first time, but then hit it the other four times.”
“Wow - really? How far away?”
“300 yards.”
“Oh honey - I think you mean 300 feet. 300 yards is three football fields.” (A gong is probably 18 to 24” diameter.)
“No - he said it was 300 yards - it was a long ways. But his gun had a scope - all you had to do was look through the scope - not like the shotgun. Except I did shoot better than he did!”
I looked up the gun range they were at - it has a gong at 300 yards.
I get confused on the steep slope when shooting - it has been so long since I hunted on them. But the angles do present a bit of a challenge. Something like have to hold below the target if shooting downhill, and above the target if shooting uphill? I’m sure a few minutes on google would solve that. And it isn’t much. At 500 yards you are talking a hold point difference of 6 to 12 inches I would guess.
So while a novice hitting a specific individual from his perch would be difficult - hitting 10’ x 10’ clusters of people would be pretty easy.
Zero in at 25 meters and you’re dead on at 500 meters.
No, paradoxically, the hold is the same whether uphill or downhill. You hold lower than with a straight trajectory.