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nope, the angle is the same whether the target is 5 feet away or 500 feet away.. but the difficulty of nailing the exact angle gets greater the farther away the target is.

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Q: When a rifle is fired at a distant target the barrel is not lined up exactly on the target so does the angle of correction depend on the distance of the target?
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