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