some 44-77 questions

[Nuclearcricket]

Thanks for the reply's, yea air movement could be some of the cause, the shooting was done at Ridgway PA range, definitely not flat and I have seen the wind flags do strange things. I have seen the flags on each bank of animals point in a different direction as well as seen the flags on just one bank pointing in different directions.
But I would think that if it was the wind it would effect both the vert as well as the horizontal but the horizontal seemed very consistent.
Also keep in mind that this was just shooting to get some sight settings and to fire form the brass so that may have some effect.
One funny thing was the first shot. It hit a good 6' below the chicken, but took the chicken out with the skip. From what I saw in the spotting scope, that caliber and bullet seemed to hit the animals very hard and they seemed to drop a little faster than what I an used to seeing. Normaly I watch a couple of shooters right in front of my perch as I am the guy calling the line and observe things with 10X binoculars.
Sam