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To: w1n1
Some hunters know that when facing a long downhill shot angle they are getting slightly lower than normal. That’s because gravity pull is greatest on objects that is 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 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.

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.

5 posted on 09/22/2017 8:49:38 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

“Product of ‘distinctness’ and range”

LOL...pardon me, gotta go buy a new “Distinctness Meter.”


7 posted on 09/22/2017 8:53:54 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Pollster1

It appears that this article was created with a speech-to-text app. This sort of technology is not always friendly, especially if a “writer” totally blows off the proofreading work.


10 posted on 09/22/2017 9:10:43 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Pollster1

It is not being a grammar Nazi to note that much of this article is literally unreadable. It is an example of something I have noted before, you cannot actually determine whether the author even knew what he was trying to say since what he wrote is meaningless.


22 posted on 09/22/2017 10:07:50 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism regardless of the race of the racist)
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