What is a Gunsight to You?

[skorpx1]

Iv'e always used the gunsight that I got from BluBerry. It gets the job done and looks cool. Point & click.

[icepac]

I pretty much ignore the gunsight except in planes that have rockets or a long range cannon.

[Aspen]

#2 -  I use the same sight in everything.  I know that subconsciously my brain logs info on lead and target size in relation to the sight so I keep it consistent.  All I consciously use is the pipper.  As Bustr's squaddie I know that specific sights can be a great asset for specific weapons but I like my plain old dot and ring.

[Wiley]

I used to just use a dot, as about all I was interested in was where the bullet stream was going and really didn't like clutter.

I read several of Bustr's posts about the 100 mil rings, and it started me thinking about stuff.  I downloaded his pack and have found them to be a huge asset on .50 equipped planes in particular.  It gives a pretty decent indicator for approximate lead on certain shots that crop up often enough.

The historical aspect of them is a nice side bonus.

I'd put it somewhere along the lines of wishing for 1, 2, 4, 5 for me.

Wiley.

[bustr]

If I'm flying my Ki-84 I don't use a gunsight at all.

You're just into precise detail Bustr. No problem with that unless it hinders other areas of your life. You don't have a Ray Finkle altar to gunsights do you? 

You need to get your Ace Ventura detective story correct for the audience.

Finkle's mother is senile, and his father is a suspicious, shotgun-wielding old man who confides to Ace that his son was put into a mental institution in Tampa after his career ended; Finkle later escaped from the institution and is still at large. Finkle's bedroom contains a shrine-like construction declaring his extreme hatred of Dan Marino, whom he blamed for the missed field goal due to mishandling the snap.
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Nrshida,

Not really. My wife's opinion is I have a compulsive fixation on reducing BS down to it's simplest constituents so anyone can accomplish the task. I've outsourced myself out of a few jobs by rendering the arcane into the simplistic by which my employer subsequently replaced me with lower cost workers with simplified scripts. They were very happy and confided that they had always thought my profession was simpler than some of us made it look for what we were being paid. Ooopsie......or as my wife sometimes teases me. Honey you are one dumb smart person. She still won't let me live down that I once thought Saturday the 25th was a good day for my team to get ahead on a project at work and scheduled it without looking at the calendar......  

[nrshida]

You need to get your Ace Ventura detective story correct for the audience.

Finkle's mother is senile, and his father is a suspicious, shotgun-wielding old man who confides to Ace that his son was put into a mental institution in Tampa after his career ended; Finkle later escaped from the institution and is still at large. Finkle's bedroom contains a shrine-like construction declaring his extreme hatred of Dan Marino, whom he blamed for the missed field goal due to mishandling the snap.

See there you go again. My analogy was broad and humorous and you corrected it with considerable detail that isn't relevant to the amusing imagery of a portion of your house being dedicated to reticule sights and mills 

Have you ever considered taking an art class. Impressionistic or abstract painting would do you good. No small paintbrushes allowed! 

Not really. My wife's opinion is I have a compulsive fixation on reducing BS down to it's simplest constituents so anyone can accomplish the task. I've outsourced myself out of a few jobs by rendering the arcane into the simplistic by which my employer subsequently replaced me with lower cost workers with simplified scripts. They were very happy and confided that they had always thought my profession was simpler than some of us made it look for what we were being paid. Ooopsie......or as my wife sometimes teases me. Honey you are one dumb smart person. She still won't let me live down that I once thought Saturday the 25th was a good day for my team to get ahead on a project at work and scheduled it without looking at the calendar......  

That's a talent, just misapplied. Remember what Einstein allegedly said about simplicity...

[bustr]

Untill 1989 I supported myself with tsukamaki, shira-zaya, and habaki. My agent was Cary Condell of Condell & CO. Ltd. late of San Francisco 1948-2011. A member of the NCJSC and Asian antiquities broker.

Yes I have taken up an art which required attention to detail and made a living at it. To kill a little time I taught myself to facet gemstones. Wanna loose your mind and eye sight? Do the pavilion of a "Portugese Cut" in a stone under 10mm.

I simply answered with a funny story and a broader inclusion for our audience as my reply rather than with the angle of the dangle. Or an obscure reference with a meaning with in a meaning to describe a person not normal without being Moded by Hitech. Or we could speak in the language of flowers and be very Victorian and obscure with our exchange.

My wife enjoys the corner on the making fun of me market visa obscure inferences. She could give you some lessons.

[nrshida]

My wife enjoys the corner on the making fun of me market visa obscure inferences. She could give you some lessons.

I'm only joking around Bustr, apologies if I have upset you.

[Lusche]

To me, most of the time it's just something that gets in the way, thus I'm using the Dot'o'Death most of the time.
The only time I'm actually taking advantage of marks beyond the 'center dot' is when flying the Me 410 and on the rear gunner station in the B-29

[jeffdn]

This chart makes a lot of the gun sight lines and such make more sense to me.

[Tinkles]

Agent360 and again Randy1 have reminded me I can be too much like Data from Star Trek, when it comes to the facts and data associated to the fun of this game. Since I've had a preoccupation with gunsights for these past several years, I have it appears, to have gone "gunsighty" and lost some perspective.

It may not be good when the first thing I catch myself doing looking at cockpit screen shots is analyzing the reticle in the reflector plate. Unfailingly for the Mil diameter, bombing\rocket aids, and distance to the con by the relationship of it's wingspan to the reticle. In our game we don't have to learn everything pilots in ww2 did about their gunsight's relationship to their weapons to have fun.

What is a gunsight(reticle) to you in this game?

1. - A semi aimbot device?
2. - Point here, pull trigger, go boom?
3. - A result of personal effort to add your personal touch to your game experience?
4. - An additional touch to the historical emersion factor?
5. - An attempt to understand the technological reasons and use of the reticle's structures related to the ballistics of the guns, bombs and rockets?
 6. - Don't care, gets in the way, don't load one, just shoot from real close. Muwahaahha I own all your sheep!!

4, 5 2 in that order.  My personal fav, and really the only one I use. Is the P51k gunsight.

Tinkles

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[morfiend]

 Bustr,


   You forgot 7, point and pray!


   that's how I use my gunsight,I point and pray some rounds hit what I'm pointing at.





     

[715]

jeffdn: I don't understand your picture.  It shows all of the bullets hitting below the sight pip, no matter what range.  I thought when gun harmonization is done it includes both horizontal and vertical (i.e. gravity drop).  Is this not the case in 1) reality and 2) Aces High?

[jeffdn]

jeffdn: I don't understand your picture.  It shows all of the bullets hitting below the sight pip, no matter what range.  I thought when gun harmonization is done it includes both horizontal and vertical (i.e. gravity drop).  Is this not the case in 1) reality and 2) Aces High?

It does, but it corresponds to the position of the guns on the plane, the trajectory of the rounds fired, etc. The size of the P-47 means that the pipper is several feet above the guns, and the flat trajectory of the .50 AN/M2 means that the bullets don't have to arc as much.

[715]

It does, but it corresponds to the position of the guns on the plane, the trajectory of the rounds fired, etc. The size of the P-47 means that the pipper is several feet above the guns, and the flat trajectory of the .50 AN/M2 means that the bullets don't have to arc as much.

Oh.  So it doesn't have parallax correction built in?