For hunting, I'm not a dialer...... <snip>...... In this situation, if you aim at the top of the back, you will shoot over the animal.
Your conclusion makes an excellent case for dialing, or holding in a MRAD or Mildot Ret, your ACTUAL dope. No guesswork or approximations involved.
Agreed on the dialing/holding verified DOPE, but it’d take a lot of shooting at various distances and inclination/declination angles to get DOPE for every possible combination. That’s one place where ballistic solvers do a very good job, once you’ve got good DOPE on flat ground, since it’s a simple and accurate calculation to take the cosine of the inclination angle.
My HD-B's compensate for angle. Paired with a RZ6 or RZ8 depending on the gun I have had no problems hitting targets out to 600 yards.
