How to lead a sniper shot.

[Proudful 1]

Hello. I've been trying to hit moving targets in Dayz for a while now... (about 500m+)

But never had any luck. It may just be me, but the bullets seem to travel so slow. I come from CoD, so I'm really unused to bullet velocity etc.

Is there any tips for leading? Or any way to practice?

Thanks for the help.

[symptom 185]

Just takes practise.

[BurritoBandit 24]

Open arma OA without dayz, and use the armoury. You will eventually learn

[motocross 49]

Open arma editor, set up a group of opfor and make them run places and shoot them.

[Van Dyke 0]

Yeah as said above it take practice. Just go onto a low pop server just shoot things. Or use Armory on arma and just play around and find a range finder. You need to take into account drop and travle time. Some timesits just best to be patiant and wait for them to sit still any were 600m plus.

[Proudful 1]

Yeah as said above it take practice. Just go onto a low pop server just shoot things. Or use Armory on arma and just play around and find a range finder. You need to take into account drop and travle time. Some timesits just best to be patiant and wait for them to sit still any were 600m plus.

Uuugh. Its so tempting to take a shot at them though. :<

Every time I open up, the bullet seems to take 5 seconds to arrive... then they panick and DC. :<

[Wiley 49]

The simple way to put it, get used to how much time between you pulling the trigger and seeing the puff at different distances. Watch how far your target moves in that amount of time, and put the crosshair appropriately ahead of them. It just takes practice to get used to it.

[Post Hoc 30]

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14616

^ use this, you can make the targets move and....

practice, practice, practice.

[reddeer01 5]

Practice.

Get used to the sniper you have equipped.

Use Math.

If you have a sniper that shoots at 800m/s and your target is 1200 meters away it simply means you're going to have to predict where your target will be in 1.5 seconds alongside the amount of drop distance that comes with the velocity of your bullets. Sniping can often be a combination or dumbfound luck, pure skill and experience.

and FYI adjust the guns zeroing accordingly. No point having your AS50's Zeroing at 1600 (or whatever the max is) and a target at 200M away and then trying to nail a headshot. Bullets sure to go over.

[Zeppa 562]

500m is "easy" even with FN FALLs iron sight..

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14616

There you go, practice as much as you like... easy.