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Posted by HeavyArty
on Thursday, October 7, 2004 10:39 PM
Aiming stakes are used to aim the gun. They are placed off the left front of the gun (or whichever side the site is on, left on US guns) at about a 45 degree angle. The first is placed at about 50 meters out, the second at about 100 meters. They are lined up when looking through the site, called a PanTel (Panagraphic Telescope). When laying the gun, the aiming stakes are lined up in the site and the gun is layed on the azimuth of fire (pointed in the direction that you want the rounds to go). Once this is completed, your gun is now layed. To change the direction that the rounds go, you set off an azimuth on a scale on the PanTel and line up the aimimg stakes in the site, now you are on the new azimuth. Pretty simple and quite effective.
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