Shooting 101.
Whoever wrote this didn't pass freshman physics. You may assume that g is a constant for all intents and purposes over the trajectory of any ballistic projectile shot at the earth's surface and travelling several thousand yards or less before impact.
I expect this level of proofreading from liberals, not from normal people. My revisions below are a little better:
Some hunters know that when facing a long downhill shot angle they are getting hitting slightly lower than normal. That’s because gravity [gravity's] pull is greatest on objects that is are [grammar fixed, but the science and math are incorrect and confusing] parallel to earth. And so what this means is that a bullet fired at an angle won’t drop as much as one fired over level ground. But surprisingly this also means that a bullet will strike fire higher [?] when shooting up hills as well. Of course how much higher a bullet will hit is a product than the distinctness [I don't know how to fix this one] of the hill and the range to the target.
I try not to be the grammar Nazi on discussion posts here, but articles should have higher standards. While covering an important point, the writing on this one was a bit much for me. The errors both distract from the main point and reduce clarity.
A bullet’s velocity can be divided into horizontal and vertical compoents. An initial horizontal shot has a zero vertical component except for gravity which caused the bullet to drop.
A sharply elevated shot has a strong vertical component that is greater than the effect of gravity, at least until air resistance reduced the vertical velocity so that gravity become dominant at the apogee (or the bullet hits the target).
http://millettsights.com/downloads/ShootingUphillAndDownhill.pdf
“But surprisingly this also means that a bullet will strike fire when shooting up hills as well. Of course how much higher a bullet will hit is a product than the distinctness of the hill and the range to the target.” Was this article dictated? Did “Tootsie” the steno fumble the words “fire” and “higher”? Or, in what way does a bullet aimed puphill strike FIRE? That term is strange to me.
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Heck upn` here in the mountains usn`s were trained as kids for automatic compensation of a groundhog`s shadow being off kilter a slight bit for the downhill shot -
Who are these morons who never fired a .22 when they are 6 years old, then have the gall write about guns??
Interesting. Show this to our range rep.
I stopped right there. This fellow has NOTHING reliable to tell me about the physics of up/down shooting.
It’s about time. There was a how-to article in a magazine in the 1970s on the same topic.
I gotta get me one of those sweet .306 rifles.
Painful read.
All long distance shooting is better for it.
There is a typo in the article, so what?