If one has a GOOD rifle (solidly and evenly built, manually operated front locking bolt etc, NOT any automatic weapons) one will have little difficulty in landing successive shots in a 1 cm square at 100 metres BUT both the rifle AND the shooter him/her self needs to be WELL supported. If some one is shooting at you it would be quite safe to say one would NOT be able to hold a bead on someone for ANY length of time. Thats why automatic weapons were invented, they are designed to spray the landscape with fast flying solid objects. Note: It would be safe to say nearly all current armies will have snipers, single soldiers or small groups with some kind manually operated rifle, the US army sniper rifle is a nice weapon using standard 1/2inch ammunition accurate out to well over 1000 metres. For comparison, M24 acceptance requires 0.8 MOA, which translates to reliably hitting about a 2.3cm target at 100m. I dunno how to math that out to 600m range, but I guess it'd be about man-sized, so if your beam is that wide, at that distance, a trained human should be able to keep it on-target. (As opposed to their arm muscles making it wobble too much.) _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-talk