Aiming with the Dora

[MANDOBLE]

 

Originally posted by AKSeaWulfe:
 That's your opinion. The fact that I strafe ground targets(acks) to assist my country mates gives me a low gunnery %. I started out .24% this tour, but then I did some strafing.
-SW
[This message has been edited by AKSeaWulfe (edited 03-28-2001).]

I'm not talking about YOUR gunnery, in fact I've no idea about your %. And, in the case you use ONLY D9, and your gunnery is better than 0.1000, then just congrats.

[MANDOBLE]

RAM, AFAIK if sight is correctly placed, at any convergence the bullets will cross horizontally at the same time they cross vertically the center of the sight. So, you can test it with any conv numbers.

[R4M]

Lepthurn, I'm not assuming its wrong. That is the reason I wanted to do some tests on it. I said "IF it is wrong then..."  

 

Originally posted by MANDOBLE:
RAM, AFAIK if sight is correctly placed, at any convergence the bullets will cross horizontally at the same time they cross vertically the center of the sight. So, you can test it with any conv numbers.

For my own experience I will tell you that this affirmation is not right. I used to have a sight calibrated to be used with the head on a raised position in the Fw190.(so gaining a bit of visibility over the cowling).

I dropped it after 2 weeks only, because ANY (and I mean ANY) change of the convercence would ruin your gunnery. I simply deleted that sight and put a Revi 16B in its place.

[This message has been edited by R4M (edited 03-28-2001).]

[MANDOBLE]

Test done offline. Just taking off, gaining some speed and switching on autolevel. Conv to 300, max zoom, and start firing "bullet" by "bullet" (so no vibration effect is affecting the shots) and checking the path of those with tracers.

Well, the restuls are alarming, some bullets go hi, then drop, some others go directly down, some others go directly to the left of the visor (up or down), etc. It is almost aleatory at all. The dispersion horizontal and vertical is tremendous.

I invite you all to do this test and get as horrified as me.

[pzvg]

Offline I go into zoom mode, pull trigger and then raise my pov until I see tracer going thru center of sight, then save my head position, So far my Dora hits what I shoot at.

------------------
pzvg- "5 years and I still can't shoot"

[MANDOBLE]

pzvg, I've tried that already with even worse results.
First: some bullets drop directly to the right of the sight center.
Second: some others go up with a different pattern than the rest, so passing over the sight center and going down at the left of the center.
third: elevating the POV makes short distance shots even harder, while helping a bit with shots at medium range.

Going back to default pov and havig the same original problems: bullets going directly down or right the sight. A small percentage of bullets crossing the sight center with cnv at 300 yards.

I'm almost sure there is a real problem with those guns. Related to the sight possition, gun possition or to an exagerate dispersion.