I know you can hit cons with the soft gun as long as they are in ICON range. I received a PM once rudely complimenting my game hack because one of my lucky rounds took the tail off of the PMers F6f just short of 6k away.
you sure about that? the max range for the gun I was able to determine was 4725 yds..
as for aiming, yea i never use the rings at all.. i use dot on screen. for normal use, head is all the way up which puts the dot about a half inch above the rings. if i need to lob at gv's, i move head off to the right. occasionally use f5-f8 view for gv hidden behind hills also