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Re: Are higher altitude sights inherently less accurate?
From: Örjan Sandström
Date: 2012 May 2, 08:42 -0700
From: Örjan Sandström
Date: 2012 May 2, 08:42 -0700
Uhm, my experience is that it requires more care swinging the sextant "right" shooting higher angles.
that is pivoting around index mirror NOT scope, also most sextants seem to have larger errors above 100° or so.
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