My 50 caliber rifle shoots this high at 60 yards with 90 gr of FFF Swiss, 495 rb. This is prone shot off a "chunk".
I was out hunting today and the deer were not cooperating so I stacked a rock above the grass and shot it at 128 yards sitting. Range is by laser.
The rifle probably shoots a little higher from sitting position, though I doubt its much. But this is still a dead on hold.
Its also the second shot.
The rest of the story. It was what passes for a still day here, but when I shot the first barrel there was a breeze. I thinks "deer don't care if the wind blows" not much wind so I hold about a rock width to the right. Miss was at about the level of the hit but just off the down wind edge. I piled rocks at the spot and then went back to where I was setting. It was close 2" at the most.
I was actually surprised it was not a hit.
By the time I shot barrel 2 the breeze had dropped to undetectable again where I sat so I held dead on, heard the hit through the smoke.
This rifle will kill deer 0 to 130 yards with a dead on hold. No guessing for hold over, just put the front sight in the vertical center of the deer and shoot. It is "point blank" to 130 yards.
This is the reason for heavier charges of powder, lots of folks shoot less than I, and sighting the rifle at longer range.
Forsythe in "The Sporting Rifle and Its Projectiles" talks about the value of flat trajectories.
Its why the modern hunter likes high velocity cartridges. They shoot "point blank" to 300 or so if sighted right
Dan
