Hillcrest Reference Shelf
Useful Apps and Downloads
Suggested reading and interesting links
A working collection of practical calculators, construction notes, ballistics references, books, and trusted external resources.
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Reference index
Field Tools
Shooting calculators
Rifle shooting calculations useful for the field and classroom include MOA calculations, hit prediction, extreme-angle distance, and estimating target distance with MOA-ready optics.
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Stairway calculator
This calculator is for measurements made while constructing a ladder stairway to an elevated hunting platform.
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Deer blind construction plans
Download construction plans for an elevated hunting blind measuring 6 feet wide by 8 feet long by 10 feet elevated.
Permanent stands work well adjacent to fields hunted year after year, located with attention to local travel corridors and wind.
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Cartridges and ballistics primer
Download the original Hillcrest primer notes for cartridges and ballistics.
Open ballistics primerSuggested Reading
Books for the reference shelf
Shooting and ballistics
- Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting, Bryan Litz
- Principles of Personal Defense, Jeff Cooper
- Precision Long Range Shooting and Hunting, Vol. 1, Jon Gillespie Brown
- Big Book of Ballistics, Phillip Massaro
- The Ultimate Optics Guide to Rifle Shooting, Reginald J. G. Wales
- Hatcher's Notebook, Julian S. Hatcher
- Long Range Shooting Handbook, Ryan M. Cleckner
- The Scout Rifle Study, Richard Allen Mann II
Forestry and habitat
American history
External Resources