15 January 2015

Little Things

After, literally, decades of sniper scopes having blinking colored lights and meaningless number readouts...

It was super refreshing in American Sniper to see the correct reticule for a PSO-1 being used by a bad guy.

So refreshing I didn't register immediately that the 5-800m shot's victim filled the whole picture and not under the ranging stadia on the bottom left...

3 comments:

  1. Yeah, this is an artistic license thing they do with movies, because they kind of have to. The view through the scope on an 800 meter target would be too tiny and too shaky to make for a decent cinematic shot. So they make it unrealistically large and unrealistically stable, unintentionally giving non-shooters this idea that an 800 m shot is really quite easy.

    Spoiler alert: it's totally not.

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    1. I, personally, have made two 3,000m shots and it was easy. But it was from the gunner's seat of an M1A1(HA), with a fully computerized and stabilized sightings system and the target was literally the size of a small building. GRIN

      But I think my longest shot ever with a rifle is around 600 yards and the double man sized target was so very small in the 9x scope. I'd never been so aware of how much I move when I'm "totally still". My uncle coaching my misses didn't help a bunch because I was trying to compensate for random movement and making it worse. Luck got the hit at the end not skill.

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  2. I've done a 3 foot gong at 989. Three hits in 5 shots. 'Bout as good as I can manage with my elk hunting (non sniper) equipment.

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