distance judging

[jeffery7466]

I am always interested in sniping skills, the thing i'd always wanted to know is how to judge distance with bare eyes?

[winchester_down]

Google is your friend....



http://oberon.ses.nsw.gov.au/resources/JUDGEDIS.HTM


also you can use hand angles as well and binos and ranging fire and rangecards/maps

[digrar]

Known distances are another method. You may be very familiar with 50m pools, or the length of a football pitch, if you can picture something being 4 pools away, you know it is about 200m.

[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

I remember doing a course on this at singleton army base. There is actually method they use but yeah cadets was 15 years ago.

[Jippo]

Use a map.

[winchester_down]

I remember doing a course on this at singleton army base. There is actually method they use but yeah cadets was 15 years ago.

The judging distances lesson is 40 mins approx.
I have the slideshow and stuff as i was going to give this lesson a few months ago.
I gave the dude a link though as I cant really go into army lessons on the net.

Yeah the methods are basically what is given in the link,

Appearance method
Unit of measure method.
then a few other aids


I have

[James]

I am always interested in sniping skills, the thing i'd always wanted to know is how to judge distance with bare eyes?

Some rifle scopes are designed in such a way that the reticle hels the user estimate distance.

I want to say (can't remember for sure) that the front sight post on an M16 approximates the height of an average man at 300m; might be 200m...

What Digrar mentioned is probably the most common thing we did in the USMC - estimate the number of football fields between you and whatever.

[Britboy]

Remember if you are looking at things with bright light behind them (i.e. vehicle in a street with the sun low over the street) it can make it seem closer than it really is.

It's important that you can do this just by looking, but if you're in a location for any length of time knock up a quick rangecard of the main features, even more accurate if you have a map. This'll help a lot when reporting sightings, setting your weapons sights to the appropriate range, and when told to engage something at 'the lone tree' and you're thinking 'Which one?!!'

"You take what you know, and then multiply. Please don't use your ****s, they're too small and I can't count that high, I don't want to hear 40 000 inches or whatever..."

I love the training scene in that film.

Regards
BB

[jeffery7466]

Thx a lot! Especially winchester_down!

[Old Hickory]

The easiest way is when you have a known size of a target in inches or an item near the target. Say the human head is an average 10 inches. Using a mil-dot scope this formula is easiest. 10 times .0254 times 1000 divided by the height in mils in the scope = the distance in meters. Of course a good range finder works well. It may not be 100 % accurate but the differences are minor.