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dumb question : just how much does shooting up hill/down hill affect bullet drop

since there are way too many different calibers and nuances to each individual cartridge , for sake of argument lets just ask how much does shooting up hill , or down hill does gravity affect any given bullet in relation to its particular mid to max to sweet spot range in relation to a flat shot , is POI really that noticeable?
If you're using ballistic software, there’s likely a field where you can input shot angle. It will tell you exactly the change in drop is. Easy to play with different angles.

Need to Extend Freebore - Throating Reamer Advice?

Thanks guys, that is essentially what my developing smith friend told me: DFWI.

It does shoot well, with 162/168 bullets. Desire would be to maximize COAL for better powder/jump management and to be able to run 180s / 166 atips. Sounds like I should leave this hunting carbon alone (animal won’t tell the difference) and just pickup a different barrel for heavies for LR shooting.

Lithgow LA101 with a few mods.

My smith finished this recently and I've just started doing some initial ammo testing.
Ammo is very scarce in my area so I just buy anything decent I come across and hope it shoots OK in one or more of my rim fire barrels.
The attached targets have been shot with a variety of SK/Lapua/Eley ammo with head space set at 045 & 043. Ignition is a little inconsistent with the thinner Eley cases and I've had a few misfires but can adjust the HS to suit in a few minutes if I can only source Eley.
Overall function is faultless with all ammos and several magazines and I think this will be a nice 22 - Only have a few hundred rounds through it at this point.

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