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Join the contest SubscribeOK, maybe not a transit and laser -- but OP may require at least one or two other people if you're going by Mark 1 Mod 0 eyeball and not something as primitive as a compass and chains.
He's got to lay out his line before clearing the first tree or bush if he doesn't have line-of-sight. How do you do this with a phone or GPS?
Lewis and Clark surveyed the west with chains. The photos below are the US-Canadian border. Imagine surveying that with a ball of string and a compass.
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Exactly, find a surveyor who likes to shoot and barter.Surveyor's transit with laser pointer.
Great idea , those guys are a dime a dozen .Exactly, find a surveyor who likes to shoot and barter.
Helps account for spin drift down range.unless you have the bent carrot.
I can understand the need to throw some technology at your situation lash, you explained it wellOkay, so main reason that I’m following is that we may need to do this same thing, but over varying terrain and elevations and out past a mile. Including water holes and other obstacles. Not everbody has unlimited time and resources to just go crashing about, hoping to get it right by the time they go broke.
I’m well aware that people have been doing this since man started claiming land as theirs. Simplest methods, that work most efficiently, at lowest cost are within our grasp today, so any information is good information.
Yeah I live in a tropical jungle here in La. Some places you can't see 10 ft in the summer. This is the only time of year you can do any clearing with anything less than a D7. The leaves are off the trees and you can kinda see what you're running over.I can understand the need to throw some technology at your situation lash, you explained it well
And there have been some great recommendations
But the OP is only going 300 yards from his deck to a hill.
Seems he can cut a narrow path to the hill knocking down a few trees along the way, look back and if he still sees his cabin, widen his way back
Now, I come from an area with very few trees so maybe I don't understand why it is so hard for him.
Be nice if he would show up to his party and help steer the conversation
A picture of the target hill from his deck would be worth a thousand words.
I seeYeah I live in a tropical jungle here in La. Some places you can't see 10 ft in the summer. This is the only time of year you can do any clearing with anything less than a D7. The leaves are off the trees and you can kinda see what you're running over.
Look around the want ads in your area for people that do land clearing. We hired a guy that had a skid steer with a mulching machine attachment and he cleared WAAAY more than that in a very very short time.What foolproof way is there to mark a really straight line though woods/brush?
I'd like to make myself a smallish range at camp. I have a nice hill to act as a backstop, and the porch as a firing point. I want to connect the two, but there is nothing but thick brush and woods in between. I'd like to clear about 900 feet long and 10 feet wide.
I think you might want to re-examine that 10 foot plan. Well, I guess it depends on what you are shooting.I'd like to clear about 900 feet long and 10 feet wide.
Serious question - how high up were .22 bullets hitting tree limbs when shooting a target at 300 yards? Are you with your rifle and the target at about the same elevation?I think you might want to re-examine that 10 foot plan. Well, I guess it depends on what you are shooting.
I have a 300 yard lane in my yard and the problem I had for a while there was the branches above the ground. Often I shoot a 22LR out to my last plate and my bullets would get up in the tree limbs above the lane.
If you are going through the trouble to clear it, do enough to make it slightly wider. The trees and stuff along the sides of the lane will still grow and depending on the tree and whatever they will eventually form a canopy.
Did some quick AB ballistic math. 40gr bullet @ 1050fps. Didn't mess with height offsets or anything. Zeroed @ 50 yards.Serious question - how high up were .22 bullets hitting tree limbs when shooting a target at 300 yards? Are you with your rifle and the target at about the same elevation?
Is that the way the math works?Did some quick AB ballistic math. 40gr bullet @ 1050fps. Didn't mess with height offsets or anything. Zeroed @ 50 yards.
@ 300 yards drop in inches is 165.4". So 13'9.4".
Yes, that is the way the math works, almost.Is that the way the math works?
I mean, I understand if you aim at a target at fifty yards and shoot it dead center that it is zeroed for 50 yards. I think the way those charts work is that a drop of 165.4 means that still shooting at 50 yards zero, the bullet would theoretically drop that much further. I am not sure that math holds once you re-zero for 300 yards, tiling the barrel up. I could certainly be wrong. I don't know the answer, so I am not really debating with you. I am just trying to figure this out in my head without the math skills to figure this out or any real work plausible testing.
Edited above upon further searching.Yes, that is the way the math works, almost.
It's more like 66% not 50%...
if you go too the kestrel and look at the TRACE setting, which shows you where to look above the line of sight for your round. If I have a 65.8 MIL Hold on the shot, it shows 43.8 for the TRACE so it's gonna go up that high when trying to look for it.
Closer to 58.5".If you don't have a Kestrel you can do the same in most ballistic calculators by changing the zero setting in that app to the range to target..
Say1000, then look at the trajectory, which normally shows all drop - negative numbers But, with a zero at 1000 yards the trajectory will then show some positive numbers.
The highest point in the trajectory positive numbers will be the highest point over terrain assuming a near zero angle between rifle and target.
Honestly I don't know the exact answer to your question of how high. My shooting lane is not perfectly flat though. My shooting position is on a small hill that slopes slightly down as you go towards the target and then back up again. Basically it's like a very small valley.Serious question - how high up were .22 bullets hitting tree limbs when shooting a target at 300 yards? Are you with your rifle and the target at about the same elevation?