<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Beowulf:
No insult to Bryan Gibson(I certainly couldn't do what he does)but the sights on all of his rifles are too low. If you were to put your cheek on the stock, your eye wouldn't go low enough to see through the sights. He Should take a look at a real scoped rifle, and note the height of the sight as compared to the cheekpiece. As a gunsmith I notice these things.
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Fair enough... as a veteran of twelve years and a sniper in an air force specs team, I can appreciate your observations, but I don't nessecarily agree.
Firstly, note the gauss weapon, here we have an adjustable cheekpiece, and as to others, you will find that a dead on spot weld is not nessecary- although the data isn't out yet, at the tech levels these weapons appear, the sighting system is typically a holographic setup, witha full array rig ( IR, LI, Thermal, and optical)
The theory isn't that the shooter typically sights as we might ordinarly, but that the sights are setup for an optical relief favoring the " point assault" type of stance, and the eyepiece is less an optic as such as it is a projection lens, adjustable to the shooter. More detail than appears in the descriptions, but this is the theory behind the design, at least.
Your point is taken, though, and I will bear it in mind- i go for as realistic an approach as possible.