New Tracers

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Originally Posted by Strike

I have fired 7,62x51 with the HK AG-3 at night and my experience was that from my point of view they appear as dots, rising a little at first then dropping past the convergence setting. (The AG-3 fires slightly upward to meet center of my sights at 200m range then drops off after that. Lethal range estimated at 4500m iirc ).

Just for the sake of it I used the HK G3 in the Swedish army a lot too - with tracers at night etc that looked just as you decribe them -tiny glowing dots popping away in the dark, no camera shutter "error lines".

But regarding the bullet path - the G3 fires the bullet in a path that passes the sight line at 30 meters when you use the 200 meter sight and then passes the top between 30 and 200 after it "falls" back to the sight line again at 200 meters. I think it is 17 cm above the sight line at 120 meters or so. May not sound that important but as the minimum sight distance of the G3 is 200 meters it may be good to know that if firing at targets at around 100 meters which is a "common range" you have to aim some 15 cm below the intended target or it will go high... If shooting at 500 meters with a G3 which is the maximum range of the iron sights the bullet is 90 cm over the sight line at 250 meters!

I remember that as we used the 200 meter setting and fired at targets 30 meters away to calibrate the sights... If it hits dead on at 30 meters it will do that at 200 meters too, and it's less walking up to patch the targets