BF2S Forums Which part of pistol to aim?

those rounded barrels are silencers. 
*sigh*

nevertheless, you seem to have the right idea.

sight picture - sight alignment

Here is an easy way to site your pistols, silenced or not.

Get a fine tip dry erase marker.  (Test it in the corner of your screen to make sure it wipes off.  I use a glass CRT.  I haven't tested this on LCD.)  (Gene_Pool stated below to use a lead pencil on LCDs .... thanks GP)

Go prone and zoom in using a sniper rifle and put a dot on the crosshair.  As long as you don't change any graphics related settings that should be your computers "general site".  (My CRT has thick glass so if I move my chair I have to replace the dot because it looks off.)

Cycle through a few kits and weapons and see that they all share this site.  Now site in the pistol.  It should be pretty close to a head shot with the dot.  Of course it might not be 100% dead on depending on distance.

I find that I keep that dot on at all times.  That way you can quickly line up the shot while on the move before you zoom.  It really helps once you get use to it.  Good tip I read some place on this site.

It helps on the + sites that have a big opening in the middle.  It can even help at firing a sniper rifle point blank range unzoomed when that infantry surprizes you.

It also helps when you are a gunner in a transport chopper because you don't loose your site on the white clouds.

Last edited by TheSkrapper (2007-06-05 08:06:10)

TheSkrapper wrote:

Here is an easy way to site your pistols, silenced or not.

Get a fine tip dry erase marker.  (Test it in the corner of your screen to make sure it wipes off.  I use a glass CRT.  I haven't tested this on LCD.) 

Go prone and zoom in using a sniper rifle and put a dot on the crosshair.  As long as you don't change any graphics related settings that should be your computers "general site".  (My CRT has thick glass so if I move my chair I have to replace the dot because it looks off.)

Cycle through a few kits and weapons and see that they all share this site.  Now site in the pistol.  It should be pretty close to a head shot with the dot.  Of course it might not be 100% dead on depending on distance.

I find that I keep that dot on at all times.  That way you can quickly line up the shot while on the move before you zoom.  It really helps once you get use to it.  Good tip I read some place on this site.

It helps on the + sites that have a big opening in the middle.  It can even help at firing a sniper rifle point blank range unzoomed when that infantry surprizes you.

It also helps when you are a gunner in a transport chopper because you don't loose your site on the white clouds.

I only ever did that for COD2 :p

TheSkrapper wrote:

Here is an easy way to site your pistols, silenced or not.

Get a fine tip dry erase marker.  (Test it in the corner of your screen to make sure it wipes off.  I use a glass CRT.  I haven't tested this on LCD.) 

Go prone and zoom in using a sniper rifle and put a dot on the crosshair.  As long as you don't change any graphics related settings that should be your computers "general site".  (My CRT has thick glass so if I move my chair I have to replace the dot because it looks off.)

Cycle through a few kits and weapons and see that they all share this site.  Now site in the pistol.  It should be pretty close to a head shot with the dot.  Of course it might not be 100% dead on depending on distance.

I find that I keep that dot on at all times.  That way you can quickly line up the shot while on the move before you zoom.  It really helps once you get use to it.  Good tip I read some place on this site.

It helps on the + sites that have a big opening in the middle.  It can even help at firing a sniper rifle point blank range unzoomed when that infantry surprizes you.

It also helps when you are a gunner in a transport chopper because you don't loose your site on the white clouds.

Its not exact.

The reticles on the Sniper Rifles dont match the center of the screen. Different resolutions give different crosshair centers too.

The game has bulletdrop so you will have to compensate for any shot you take.

There is deviation for each handheld weapon in BF2. Which in turn is influenced by your firing position, movement and zoom/unzoom.

Firing a Sniper Rifle (unzoomed) point blank and getting a Hit/Kill is extreme luck. The base deviation for that is huge when compared with any of the other weapons.

Last edited by Jemme101 (2007-06-05 04:28:02)

Jemme101 wrote:

Firing a Sniper Rifle (unzoomed) point blank and getting a Hit/Kill is extreme luck. The base deviation for that is huge when compared with any of the other weapons.

Yeah, I luckily have done this twice.  Both times were with the MEC semi-auto.  I rounded a corner and came face to face with the enemy.  I always run and scan with my dot.  It's second nature now so when I rounded the corner my dot was in his chest. (Although the gun seems to be aiming to the right.)  I let 3-4 rounds rip in rapid succession and luckily took out the enemy.  Had I tried to change to pistol or knife I would have died.

I've had a few failed attempts also, so I am not saying this is a tactic.  It doesn't matter what the deviation is if their chest fills 1/3 of your screen.

Who the heck uses sights on pistols

RedTwizzler wrote:

Snipingruven wrote:

Who the heck uses sights on pistols

Engineer is the only kit where it's excusable since that's their longest-range weapon.

wrong. u should zoom in with any weapon provided you know how to use the iron sight. http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=75820

Snipingruven wrote:

Who the heck uses sights on pistols

I've used my silenced pistol at meduim range sighted to attack a squad taking a flag. (I was out of nades.)  If I had used my sniper rifle I would have given away my position.   I was able to quietly kill 4 before I was spotted and finally killed.   (Only 2 by headshots.  Pistols can fire pretty rapidly and using the dot and sight helps.)