I am shooting a 12ga rifled slug using a scope.

I have a sopt where I sit in a valley and there is a path up on the hill side.
The spot I have a shot is about 50 yards away at about a 45% angle up the hill.

Where do I put the cross hairs?

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at the deer !!!!!!!!!!


@ 50 yards there isn't going to be very little drop - shootinng up or flat - would est. 1-2"

Same place you would if the shot was downhill.

If you are asking will your point of impact change shooting up hill the answer is yes.

Any time your trajectory is not parallel to the earth's gravitation pull your point of impact will be higher. Doesn't make any difference whether you are shooting up hill or down hill your bullet will impact higher.

The more the angle the higher it will impact.

I am shooting a 12ga rifled slug using a scope.

I have a sopt where I sit in a valley and there is a path up on the hill side.
The spot I have a shot is about 50 yards away at about a 45% angle up the hill.

Where do I put the cross hairs?



According to Remington, their 1-ouncer rifled High Velocity Sluggers travel 13% faster than their regular slug and come out at 1800 fps.

That would mean their regular rifled slugs come out at 1566 fps.

At 50 yards, you won't be able to tell the difference from shooting like the target was on level ground with you. That is not much distance and that slug is still pretty fast at 1566.

Put the site/crosshairs where you want the slug to enter, assuming you are sighted in for 50 yards.

There is one caution I want to give you about your shots. IF YOU HAVE A CANTILEVERED SCOPE for your shotgun, note that the bore of the shotgun is about 2.5 inches below the line of sight through the scope. THAT is a long ways! If that deer is at 10 yards, your round will hit that many inches low on the target. (Sight in at 50 and then shoot at the bull at 10 and you will see what I mean.) The round actually takes an upward path from the muzzle to meet the line of sight through the scope at 50 yards, if you are sighted in at 50 yards.

The point is, if you get a shot at 10 yards while sighted in at 50, you will have to put the crosshairs a little higher on the deer than you think, to hit where you want to hit, due to that distance between the crosshairs and the muzzle. Been there, hadn't thought about that difference, luckily I got the deer anyway (took out the very bottom of the heart) . After we recovered the deer, I couldn't figure out why my shot was so low. That really bothered me, because I am meticulous with my sight-ins and with my shots and I had a rock-solid hold when I took that shot. Took me a while to figure it out.

Good luck with your hunt.

If you are asking will your point of impact change shooting up hill the answer is yes.

Any time your trajectory is not parallel to the earth's gravitation pull your point of impact will be higher. Doesn't make any difference whether you are shooting up hill or down hill your bullet will impact higher.

The more the angle the higher it will impact.

I think this is the right answer. True distance effected by gravity is shorter on an angled shot vs a flat shot. Couldnt remember if I shoot high or low. Shoot a little low and I should be ok, right?. Because the travel of the bullet horizontally is shorter then its actual path.

Go to your stand now, set up a target and take a couple of shots. No more guessing.

Go to your stand now, set up a target and take a couple of shots. No more guessing.

Would've been done if it wasn't a 6 hour drive from ND to SE MN.

When making your shots uphill, make sure you have a backstop otherwise the slug will keep traveling or bouncing up over the top of the hill if you miss and you never know what is on the other end. I was on the other end of a hill several seasons ago during shotgun season when my dad unloaded at does running up hill, all sprayed in my direction i'm lucky I didn't get hit. Haven't been deer shotgun hunting since.

Would've been done if it wasn't a 6 hour drive from ND to SE MN.

Simulate it. The physics won't change from state to state. Or, look up distance, weight, degree of gravity, and degree of angle. Put together your own geometric table.

When making your shots uphill, make sure you have a backstop otherwise the slug will keep traveling or bouncing up over the top of the hill if you miss and you never know what is on the other end. I was on the other end of a hill several seasons ago during shotgun season when my dad unloaded at does running up hill, all sprayed in my direction i'm lucky I didn't get hit. Haven't been deer shotgun hunting since.

Not an issue where we are at in bluff country and heavy woods. Slug would end up in the side of the bluff.