What was your most difficult shot?

[farmer_john]

Any animal lying down from the same level or below an animal. The few shots I've heard of and seen on video have all been too high. From above aiming down, generally OK.

IF I think I'm understanding you correctly. You're talking about angle fire? If you're shooting up or down in elevation the bullet always flies high. Our rule of thumb was aim for their nuts to hit them in the chest.
the plane you're looking at through the scope is the C angle of the triangle whereas the distance gravity works on it is the B section with you being at the A C intersection. Without going into the math of it all

 

[Ryan]

IF I think I'm understanding you correctly. You're talking about angle fire? If you're shooting up or down in elevation the bullet always flies high. Our rule of thumb was aim for their nuts to hit them in the chest.
the plane you're looking at through the scope is the C angle of the triangle whereas the distance gravity works on it is the B section with you being at the A C intersection. Without going into the math of it all
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No, and yes.

So, shots I have heard of messed the most are when the animal is lying down. Anatomy gets messed with and shooters tend to shoot high light of this when both shooter and target are on ground level.
The exception would be a shot from above which I have actually taken on an unassuming caribou.

Now, your calcs are correct, but not where I was going.
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[farmer_john]

No, and yes.

So, shots I have heard of messed the most are when the animal is lying down. Anatomy gets messed with and shooters tend to shoot high light of this when both shooter and target are on ground level.
The exception would be a shot from above which I have actually taken on an unassuming caribou.

Now, your calcs are correct, but not where I was going.
.

I gotcha. Where did you get to hunt caribu?

 

[dgr416]

Alaska is where the sky is the limit on the tundra .I had taken my best friends son to try to find caribou .We were a long ways away but we finally found the whole herd headed towards the mountains .We had to hike 5 miles to get ahead of them before they were gone .I took my 338-378 weatherby accumark knew we could shoot 500 yards easy .We got up in the edge where the tundra meet the mountain and there were at least 5000 caribou .We watched them fightimg which was awesome .We were hid on a ledge below .Then a lone young caribou bobbed his head at at then told the herd we were there some how .They all ran i got prone and watched for the biggest bull to come across the opening to the base of the mountain .I have a 6x20 nikon scope on it and that rifle shoots as flat as a 220 swift .I watched 5 mins then finally watched a nice one coming .I got rsady and he never stopped trotting .I knew he would go up the mountain the same place as the others .I held right in the front of his chest a foot popped him at 450 yards rolled him like a mack truck .Then i told my 12 year old huntimg buddy to get on the rifle and do the same as me just be careful not to pop two caribou .He shot kinda up the base of the mountain upwards and I saw the first bull rollimg then a second one rolling .He popped two with one shot .We saw a boone and crockeet bull after we got those 3 i said no way too much to pack out .We had to call his parents to help us pack the 3 caribou out hardest pack ever too .

 

[Ryan]

I gotcha. Where did you get to hunt caribu?

I live in Alaska, Southcentral in Anchorage. And this hunt was on the North Slope of the Brookes range in 2012. We had a great fly-in you can't replicate now. Sadly, the operators have moved on and even had they not, the price would be double or triple. Caribou is not the easy gig it was.