
My primary reason for making that commitment months ago was to have a very clear, purpose-driven goal to use my personal defense AR-15 to supplement my family’s food supply with my daily carry rifle. Will you make a commitment to hunt deer this season or next? The first decision sets every other decision in play. This is the second key decision you need to make. We will come back to this very useful tool, below. The distance in yards is derived from the external ballistic data for a given cartridge.
This basic concept is called Maximum Point Blank Range or MPBR.
DEER RIFLE RECOIL TABLE HOW TO
Seeing a deer at 200 yards or less, knowing exactly where to aim, and knowing from practice with your rifle how to gently squeeze off a shot is what it takes to have a freezer full of venison. Whether you accept the multiple challenges of a deer hunt with your personal defense rifle or your favorite hunting rifle, a basic understanding of the ballistics of the cartridge you are using will allow you to focus on only one point on a deer’s anatomy regardless whether your target is at 50 yards or 200 yards.
You spent a lot of money on gear for your deer hunt (anxiety). Your buddies at work set up a pool on the success (or failure) of your hunt. It’s hard to get a deer to stand broadside at exactly 100 yards (real world). Your rifle hurts every time you pull the trigger (magnum rifle). You get really excited, and your pulse races when you aim at a deer (buck fever). The decrease in velocity and the shape of the trajectory can be predicted taking account of variables like muzzle velocity, weight and shape of the bullet as well as the relative density of the air measured by height above sea level, local temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure. As the friction of moving through air and gravity act on the bullet, velocity slows, and the bullet’s trajectory turns down. Because the barrel is pointed slightly above the line of sight, the bullet rises as it leaves the barrel at its muzzle velocity. The curve is the trajectory or arcing line of flight that a bullet takes when it leaves the muzzle of a firearm on its way to a down-range target. This is primarily the science of external ballistics with a nod to terminal ballistics. To flatten the curve for hunting deer, we will follow the science. In this article, it takes a second or less to flatten the curve. Do you remember how long it was supposed to take to “flatten the curve”? Weeks not years.