Quote Originally Posted by captain castle View Post
Thompsons are actually pretty common and cheap out here in Utah. See, I misunderstood the term aperture. This is the real aperture sight from ww2:

http://www.civilianmarksmanship.com/...tassembled.jpg

This is the one from CoD 5 that I was pretty sure was BS:

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen010.jpg

when I read about Thompsons having "aperture sights" i thought it meant the red dot ish one. I didn't even realize that the small metal circle sight on the garand counted as an aperture sight.


I was a victim of nomenclature, and I'm a better man for getting it worked out in my head.
That "aperture" sight on WaW never existed. And it wouldnt work if it did. On non -magnified sights like that, the dot has to be able to move around in the sight. Like the EOTech I have on my AR-15. If you move your head to the side, the dot moves to the side, but stays on the target. When tey do that they are called parallax free.