When watching movies about snipers, we often see snipers shooting enemies to death at a distance that others cannot see. Indeed, whether it is a handsome sniper or a sniper who calmly shoots the enemy, it is exciting. So have you ever thought about one thing? Why can the sniper hit the target even though it is not in a straight line with the scope?

First of all, everyone knows that after the bullet leaves the gun, it does not move in a straight line. To be precise, it should be a parabola. The scope of the sniper will not be installed horizontally on the gun. Generally, the front end will be lowered at some angles so that the crosshairs can form a focus with the parabola. This focus is the point where the bullet hits. Theoretically, as long as the axis of the scope and the trajectory intersect at the target position, it can hit.

Like in games, the scope and muzzle of many guns are always on the same crosshairs no matter how far away the enemy is. This is wrong. Because the real situation is that there are generally two knobs on the scope to adjust the specific accuracy of the gun.

Among them, there is a most important factor, that is, distance zeroing. The meaning of distance zeroing is to adjust the exact distance from the target on the sniper's scope. Only at the accurate specified distance scale can the scope's crosshairs and the bullet's focus be basically the same. For example, if there is a target to be shot at a distance of 400 meters, and the zero on your scope is still 100 meters, you will definitely miss it.

Of course, there are other factors that affect the strike of the sniper, such as wind direction, target movement direction, muzzle velocity, humidity, etc. The scope only plays a magnifying role. If you want to shoot the target accurately, the sniper must also calculate the lead time himself. Generally, in order to cope with this situation, the sniper will be equipped with an observer. But if a sniper can't even use the scope on his own gun, how can he hit the target?