OK so that leaves us with trying to figure out distance .
IE if your distance isn�t correct you may shoot over or under .
In this case the distance was marked / known . Since I know how much drop the ball has in my rifle , I know pretty much how high I need to aim
Also I don�t trust charts . One has to IMO go out and learn their gun , so as to actually learn how their barrel throws a ball over a given distance . Once you learn that . You can then fine tune and make better judgments .
When a group of us first started doing this , we simply would go out find a hill side that had a lot of dirt or sand . We would set a target and spend the day just trying to hit it . .
Gradual more and more of us started hitting the target , so we would shoot off hand or move back farther. It doesn�t take to long and you start to get good at judging distance . Which as you know , get harder and harder the further out you get and the ball starts to slow thus drop more ..
Now someone is bound to ask what to do if there is no back drop . Well, you don�t shoot .

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