Trajectory after 90-degree rotation

[toyfj40]

Hmmm something my limited experience had not thought of...

Your gun sight/trajectory are an UpRight orientation/alignment,
what happens when you lay-down (behind your bed/car) to shoot
at a "badguy"... how does the PoI change?

http://www.ShootingTimes.com/stMiss_071406/

[bearandoldman]

Hmmm something my limited experience had not thought of...

Your gun sight/trajectory are an UpRight orientation/alignment,
what happens when you lay-down (behind your bed/car) to shoot
at a "badguy"... how does the PoI change?

http://www.ShootingTimes.com/stMiss_071406/

A big Michign Howdiy pard to you my Texas friend. That is known as homeboy style shooting and if the sights were adjusted for work in that position they would be fine. Across the bedtroom is not really an aiming situation but MORE or less point and shoot, At a distance of 25 yards your elevation and windage adjustments would become windage and elevation and as long as the sights were adjsuted ito compensate they would work fine.
Remember in a SD situation we are not worried about hitting the X ring jsut the paper will do. If you can put all shots in a 7 inch circle at 7 yards or under that is all that is required. At those times we ain't aiming and we ain't target shooting so extreme accutracy is not really required.
Us old shotgun shooters are good at that type shooting as when I shoot sporting clays I do not see the barrel or the sights on my shotgun, just the target. Just FOCUS on the target and you will shoot where you are looking. I shoot RH but and Left eye dominant due to some retina damage in my right eye, but can usually go 40/50 on sporting clays shooting by this method that some experts tell me is impossible.

[toyfj40]

I did not expect to use "Carlos Hathcock" level skills to shoot a BadGuy
from across the room (I'd have to compensate MORE for the odor emitted
from the seat of MY pants). A rather academic-type exercise, but I found
it insight-ful and another of the dozens-of-variations that exist to get the
Sight-Alignment and the impact to coincide.

[bearandoldman]

Same with me at least if I run. I know he can not catch me as he would be slipping and sliding in that brown stuff.

Got to get you a gun like this with the proper sights, this one is set up for right hand operation.

[Bullseye]

I've know this for years, I use a canted orientation for shooting my service rifle in the sitting position. All I have to do is add the appropriate sight correction and I can easily clean the target, regardless of canting the sights. The bullet's path is going to fly with the same characterists regardless of the firearm's orientation. Once the bullet leaves the barrel, gravity and trajectory take over. Like the article stated the hits will be off of alignment but not all that much, especially at pistol distances. When I shoot the rifle at 200 yards, all I need is 2 minutes of windage correction and I'm right in there. Looking at the target at 25 yeards in the article, 8 minutes of windage combined with 8 minutes of elevation and all those shots would be right in the center. In a fight you would have to hold over for the corrections but if you're familiar with your firearm it is not a major challenge. The tough part would be having the presence of mind to do so, even if you didn't those are all hits that would work in a gunfight.

R,
Bullseye