Angle of deflection
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Depends on lots of factors, if you miss a deer after harvest on rock hard flint ground etc......
All my seats have a dead rest so the back end is not floating around, one shop made one I use my sticks and use them for longer shots.
A FC tower compared to a 7ft free standing single.........
A good number of fallow 250 out to 288 also depends on what you are using and how it is set up.
Chris J
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The angle kinda depends on how far out you shoot and how high the seat is off the ground. Not sure I've ever seen a mathematically calculated 'safe' angle published anywhere. Some of the fields and towers you see on the continent have potentially huge shooting distances which mean a very shallow angle. How disciplined that are at keeping to a distance that creates a safe angle is anyone's guess.
Deermanagement
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Showed on an earlier post, bullet strike on a field behind young Sika stag, chest shot without hitting shoulder. The bullets trajectory went around 10 degrees off to the side and the same sort of angle vertical.
This would not have been worst case scenario but I wouldn’t be surprised is this could easily go 30 degrees and that’s before it hits and sort of background.
This would not have been worst case scenario but I wouldn’t be surprised is this could easily go 30 degrees and that’s before it hits and sort of background.
caorach
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I think the people who design military ranges have to take this sort of stuff into consideration and so their various info might be useful to you but I suspect everything is based on "chances" and "likelihood" rather than absolutes.
Where did it go……And how far……?
Where did it go……And how far……? My use of trigonometry only comes in to play these days when laying out a large fabrication job on the floor ( 3-4-5) to get a right angle. I shoot from my quad sticks 90% of the time for foxes also a few Muntjac and always wondered what angle the round was...
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Grannysmith
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Dont over tech it it ALL depends on the ground and backstop
Namman
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Any angle of deflection is potentially unsafe. Ideally the ground should contain or absorb the bullet. There are so many variables with deflections or ricochets, as to make them all unpredictable and hence potentially unsafe.
WH308
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Have you ever been to Norfolk? The crab is excellent, but alas the fields are flat and stoney.
deerstalker.308
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Depends if your on field sports Britain shooting corvids or not really...... 
Foxyboy43
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An interesting post. Anyone who has ever shot tracer or even seen wartime footage of same will know just how unpredictable a round is when it hits mother earth in its many forms. There is an unfortunate abundance of footage on the tube of shots being taken with even 308 rounds from bipods across what I can only describe as open flat fields esp. at CWDs and by well known "outfitters". The poor backstop is evident to see (usually trees or just open ground) and IMHO sets a poor example of gun safety.
sir-lamp-alot
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There is no safe shot EVER, every shot you fire will have a degree of risk attached to it regardless of caliber and experience. But what you need to ask you self if the sh!t was to hit the fan can you honestley say to yourself that you were 100% happy with the decission you made in pulling the trigger because there is no hiding behind facts and figures when it all goes wrong and if the answer is yes then you pull the trigger because there is no taking it back once you have.
deerstalker.308
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But surely a tracer round would be FMJ and much more susceptible to ricochet/deflectionAn interesting post. Anyone who has ever shot tracer or even seen wartime footage of same will know just how unpredictable a round is when it hits mother earth in its many forms. There is an unfortunate abundance of footage on the tube of shots being taken with even 308 rounds from bipods across what I can only describe as open flat fields esp. at CWDs and by well known "outfitters". The poor backstop is evident to see (usually trees or just open ground) and IMHO sets a poor example of gun safety.
baguio
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True, but you do still regularly hear deer legal rounds sing when they bounce off the ground whilst on the ranges though!
Depends which part you go, I know a good few hilly bits. I have stalked there too.Have you ever been to Norfolk? The crab is excellent, but alas the fields are flat and stoney.
deerstalker.308
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Oh absolutely, I’ve had it myself with .308 off a fallow pricket, but far less more likely than an FMJ I would say
My wife had one once on the Cotswolds, a zinger 22/250. On a field shooting up into a high bank at a lamb killer. God knows where it went, she had a mod on that allowed me to hear it and it terrified both of us. Very stony fields on that place.
Had plenty with fmj's off buildings and vehicles.
Had plenty with fmj's off buildings and vehicles.
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