Baumer,
I was hoping you would have a hand in this. Your presentation using pages from the original U.S. manual was inspired. I read a translated german manual from the period earlier this year. It uses a slightly racey illustration of a cabare singer along with comic book style illustrations but, it makes it's point. It also has an excellent explanation of how to use the Revi cross and ring reticle to gauge range and lead. The name of the german manual is "Schiessfibel" or "Horrido!". I used to have an active link to it translated in english. The only links now are to the original, but the illustrations are classic.
http://rafiger.de/Homepage/Literatur/Schiessfibel.pdfhttp://www.archive.org/details/Horrido-DesJaegersSchiessfibelEveryone has custom gunsights in this game. Lord knows over the years I have created about 100 trying to find the perfict match for my eyes. No one has ever posted a page with all the real gunsight graticles and the theory behind their specific structure versus howto use them. Offline when I created gunsight graticles I've kept the rule of 200 and 400 for my primary ring and secondary ring based on following the drones around the circle for many wasted years of my life. With your excellent presentation to HiTech I'm anxiously awaiting the changes so I can go back to using the WW2 traditional sights. You gave me one of those "light bulb" moments with the Mk8 graticles. I suspect an AHWiki page dedicated to this on as many of the regulation WW2 graticles as possible, with downloads and original gunnery manual theory discussions can turn on a virtual Airforce of "Light Bulbs".
Baumer, again thank you for your excellent thread on Gunsights.
