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Re: Question: Curious Laser Beam

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From: ironman
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:00
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>You cannot conclude that it was "obviously steered by a shaking hand". 
>The change in position of any light beam over a distance, is very great
>in realation to slight changes in angle.  Over large distances, a
>shaking hand could not be steady enough to hold a spot steady enough to
>be noticed.  If it was from a tripod mounted device, it would still
>"shake", especially in a location with large buildings as you describe. 
>I see no evidence that it was a laser, or that it was not a reflection
>off something in your room from your own light.  So I will ask some more
>questions-- I am interested in helping, but I need to know more: 
>

With regards to the statement that someone cannot hold a beam on a target at 
around 100 meters  steady enough for the beam to be noticed is not true.  I 
know from experience that it is possible that an experienced shooter could 
hold a rifle steady enough to hit a target 6" in diameter at up to 1000 yards. 
 100 meters is nothing.  When you use a laser sight with a rifle over long 
ranges (too far to see the dot) you have to use some sort of a magnifing sight 
to be able to tell where exactly you are aiming.  However if the window was 
closed then the light would have been defracted out of the shooters scopes' 
sight picture.  This would not have allowed them to get the dot to the persons 
head, since they couldn't see it themselves unless they had a wide-field scope 
which would let them see the dot even though that was not where they were 
aiming the gun itself!
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From: ironman@ici.net (ironman)
Subject: Re: Question: Curious Laser Beam
Date: 1996/08/17
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