Thread 18129681

>breach loading rifles become popular
>no you don't understand, it's super important we put a graduated bullet drop compensator into the sights of every military rifle made after 1860
>red dots get invented in the mid 1980s
>no one has ever considered it important enough to put a bullet drop compensator in a red dot
I guess mechanical based bullet drop compensators weren't important on 20th century iron sights

have you considered taking one of your dad's guns and shooting the autistic part of your brain off and out the back of your skull so you can taste one gulp of air as a normal human being

>>18129688
what's it like being a no gunz homosexual tranny?

>>18129681 (OP)
M4s are glorified submachine guns - with effective ranges of submachine guns - you don't need to compensate for bullet drop in those things.

>>18129899
>300 meters
>smg
what's it like being no gunz?

>>18129901
A rifle it is not Jamal. kek

I mostly shoot sights, so when I heard you say "bullet drop compensator" I had no idea what the fuck you were talking about until I looked it up and it's just an autistic term for reticles that help you compensate for bullet drop. To be honest I always assumed that's what elevation adjustments were for. I rarely shoot beyond 150 yards to be honest

>>18129909
it is a rifle, yuropoor. ARs literally have longer rangers than yuropoor rifles like the AK-47 and longer ranges than basically any round invented before 1886
>>18129925
BDC also refers to the mechanism in iron sights that adjusts for distance, like the 300-800 drum dial on an AR-15

>>18129681 (OP)
Presumably based on the assumption that they would use those sights at low engagement ranges? Small arms kills outside of the 300m window are statistically insignificant in combat. Wasn't true in the breach loader time period.

>>18129927
>BDC also refers to the mechanism in iron sights that adjusts for distance, like the 300-800 drum dial on an AR-15
How is that different from elevation adjustment? Are they just two different terms for the same thing?

>>18129681 (OP)
>>18129944
Wrong board. M150 has a compensator.

>>18129932
I think it was only true during the back half of the 1800s due to them shooting at troop lines because it took a long time for them to stop doing linear warfare and then the sights just stayed that way due to inertia and boomer shit
>>18129937
kind of. bdc specifically means that the elevation adjustment had distances based on where the bullet should hit based on the military load and in some extreme cases like the 1903 springfield sights accounts for bullet drift, but that's just because the 1903 sights are fucking autistic because you need to be shooting like a km before bullet drift starts to matter

>>18129949
M150 isn't a red dot
>>18129944
>>18129949
military arms from the 1860s through 2000 fall under /his/

>>18129681 (OP)
Yeah, it's a good observation OP. But still, the combination of modern, flatter shooting bullets, the doctrinal changes of emphasizing shorter range engagements (the Soviets were doing fine with their smg PPShas during ww2 after all) and some tweaking to zeroing the guns - with extending the point blank range - make elevation adjustments unnecessary for the time being.
If it's the proper way of doing it is an another cattle of fish and a topic for different discussion - but not necessarily a historic one.

>>18129681 (OP)
why all these /k/ posts??