Alexey931
Member
Hi,
This question has certainly been already answered; unfortunately, I don't have the command of the necessary terms. Sorry.
I'm talking the sighting of an ordinary combat weapon here.
Dealing with a sighted firearm, you deal with the mismatch between the barrel axis and the sight axis (parallax; is it called so on the firing range?). The flying bullet crosses the sight axis twice. This is the blank, or point blank, range. For M16, IIRC, it's something like 25yd on the ascent, and 700yd on the descent. So you can put up your test target at an easy and convenient distance of 25yd, and know the bullet drops there again at 700yd. That's according to the guidelines from the Manual, which become totally irrelevant as soon as you try and mount a sight with the different parallax.
Of course, this problem is nonexistent with the weapons like L85 or Tavor, which never enjoyed the iron sights.
How am I supposed to cope with the reflector sight on a "non-native" gun? I'm not talking about fixed ranges, as in sports shooting. I'm talking about making the gun useful on the battlefield, within its sighting range.
This question has certainly been already answered; unfortunately, I don't have the command of the necessary terms. Sorry.
I'm talking the sighting of an ordinary combat weapon here.
Dealing with a sighted firearm, you deal with the mismatch between the barrel axis and the sight axis (parallax; is it called so on the firing range?). The flying bullet crosses the sight axis twice. This is the blank, or point blank, range. For M16, IIRC, it's something like 25yd on the ascent, and 700yd on the descent. So you can put up your test target at an easy and convenient distance of 25yd, and know the bullet drops there again at 700yd. That's according to the guidelines from the Manual, which become totally irrelevant as soon as you try and mount a sight with the different parallax.
Of course, this problem is nonexistent with the weapons like L85 or Tavor, which never enjoyed the iron sights.
How am I supposed to cope with the reflector sight on a "non-native" gun? I'm not talking about fixed ranges, as in sports shooting. I'm talking about making the gun useful on the battlefield, within its sighting range.