CVNet - target sighting followup (5/10/97 #2)

CVNet (cvnet@skivs.ski.org)
Sat, 10 May 97 16:55:20 PDT

To: cvnet@skivs.ski.org
From: "A. B. Bonds" <ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
Subject: Re: CVNet - target sighting followup (5/9/97 #3)
Date: 09 May 1997 14:27:23 -0500

In <9705091754.AA18398@skivs.ski.org>, CVNet wrote:
>Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 08:54:26 -0500
>From: "Lawrence H. Snyder" <larry@eye-hand.wustl.edu>

>I don't know much about rifles; do they have one sight or two?

Two.

>If only a single sight, then I presume a shooter must line up
>her sighting eye directly above the rifle, so that the line
>between her eye and the sight is identical to the path the
>bullet will take.

One aligns with the rear sight and the bead (on the front of the
barrel) both.

>If my presumption is correct (that rifles
>have only a single sight), eye position in the orbit
>and head position relative to the shoulder would be critical,

It is not, and they are not.

A. B. Bonds, Redneck and Shooter