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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Toad on December 22, 2013, 01:23:04 AM
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Anybody got one?
Years gone by Rude and I just used a simple small dot for the gunsight. That BMP is long since gone, lost on some dead hard drive.
We're both wanting one again. Anyone have one they would share? Or do we have to make one again? Kinda surprised there's not a gunsight vault in amongst all the skins you can download.
Thanks!
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(http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd183/Bearman761/Bore_Red_White.png) (http://s223.photobucket.com/user/Bearman761/media/Bore_Red_White.png.html)
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Thanks Bear!
Found a couple at the Muskies website too!
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As I think about it, we had a DeathDot gun site with a, smaller lower dot for bombs and rockets.
Anybody still using that one? Anyone have a copy/link to such a sight?
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use a marker and just put a dot on center of screen
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NM...I remembered how to make one. Added a rocket/bomb line to the Muskie death dot. Seems to be pretty close.
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I have 2 of the ones bear has posted that i made, PM me for link. one is for a large monitor and a small one. you need a small dot for a large monitor and large dot for a small monitor.
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Click the resource link in my signature and you'll find a bunch of dot styles in the bulk pack and other useful goodies...
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use a marker and just put a dot on center of screen
this is my method.
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Center Dots are 6Mil large dot from late war AAF reticles. The jabo dots are from the AAF rocket\bomb aid made standard with the 5inch HVAR. The "Blue Thingy" ring and rocket aid illustrated is to show the reference for the 3 dots below center on the DotJabo gunsight since you asked for a jabo dot. I didn't include it in the download.
DotJabo - first dot down is the center point between the 400 and 800 yard rocket launch point. The two lower dots are bomb aids for different bombing angles.
Copy both the bmp and mil files to your sights directory.
Download here: ===>> http://www71.zippyshare.com/v/19696666/file.html
DotACM
(http://imageshack.us/a/img51/6264/aey.gif)
DotJabo
(http://imageshack.us/a/img542/2798/vspl.gif)
1944 AAF rocket\bomb aid in 105Mil ring "Blue Thingy" for reference to DotJabo.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img819/176/1wf.gif)
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Thanks!
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If you know how to aim a sight is useless. :noid
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If you know how to aim a sight is useless. :noid
I would love to throw away my sites, can you teach me how to aim?
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I would love to throw away my sites, can you teach me how to aim?
The first step.
Fly naked. . .no matter the conditions.
Let me know when this step is mastered. :old:
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I've always prefered just a dot as well on the gunsight. Mind you, I genuinely suck, so maybe just ignore that...
As a footnote though, if you ever need to make your own you can just open up any of the gunsights in Paint, then just "erase" everything but the center dot. Presto chango.
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AAF gunnery instructed that the average dispersion at any range to maximum effective was 4Mil in diameter. 666yds was considered maximum effective for air combat. The dot 6Mil, at ranges 200-600 was a good indicator of drop. This was substituted with a 1\2 degree cross or about 8Mil in the fixed reticle for the Mark 21(K14)\14A\14B as the standard.
If you keep your combat 200 and closer, most of your shooting will be the center of your glass reflector plate. But, then most of you don't know how to aim using the Mil ring and Mil dot as aiming aids. In many cases players have too much joystick induced bounce to aim with the historic gunsights I make, and their best kill range ends up being 200 and closer. Unless they have a just spawned pick on the runway, even if he's rolling. They watch the rounds against the ground and walk them on target.
Now if you are shooting from a P51D or P47 with all that ammo. You can shoot at 400 to 800 without a gunsight by hosing with the tracer stream like the way some players move their head position in the wirbel above the gunsight and watch the tracer stream to guide their shooting. It's just a computer program. In real life the german 20mm ack gunner used the gunsight to get close to the correct range while being taught to correct lead with the tracers.
My shooting instructor stressed knowing what your sight picture is at all ranges you know you will shoot at. For anything else, you know your dope. Something will always be used as your reference point to work from when you want to place rounds on a point in space you have chosen. The tracer stream, muscle memory, sound if you are blind, looking down the same barrel for a 1,000,000 rounds. Or just having been there so many times your memory is the gunsight.
I'm old enough that I lived life before there were computers and geeks who don't get out enough.