Help with iron sights

[gammofly 43]

Can you tell what I am doing wrong here? Serious help please only. I only have this problem when shooting from an elevated position.

[Senrain 148]

You're shooting at him in third person.

[Dankine 377]

why don't you first person aim? much better

[terrvik 2409]

Right click once and it will take you into first person actually aiming woth the iron sights. :)

[mr_seacucumber 81]

Press the enter key on the number pad (default) to switch views. Then use iron sights that way

[Hutch (DayZ) 116]

Um. You're not using the iron sights.

Try a quick tap on the right mouse button. Then hold to zoom and steady.

[crobemeister 0]

I dont thing you know what iron sights are...

Go to first person, tap the right mouse button to bring up iron sights.

[TheLoneRanger (DayZ) 22]

The crosshairs in 3rd person are not very accurate. The Day Z wiki has more information about the crosshairs. Switch to 1st person for any kind of range shooting, unless you're enemy is at point blank.

[gammofly 43]

Duh! Thanks everyone!

[GunsBlazin 14]

that crosshair is garbage

[internetTAB (DayZ) 76]

unfortunately every guns crosshair accuracy is different Some are spot on, some are to the left of center, etc. It's weird, test it out by centering your view on something, then right click once to bring up Iron sights. You will be able to see where you are really looking. So you can "learn" to shoot without the ironsights, so to speak.