No need to apologise Andy, clearly you have missed the point entirely.

In my OP I state that next year I want to make a film about 'Field Target' shooting.

This sport involves targets made of metal which replicate legal quarry, although in some sensitive areas they are more abstract representations of inanimate things like aeroplanes and tanks. The targets are designed so that a 'hit' area when impacted it operates a mechanism which make the whole target fall over, making it visually clear that you have successfully impacted the small hit zone. These hit areas are a maximum of 45mm in diameter, and can be as small as 15 mm.

The 'course' is divided into 'Lanes', each lane having three or four targets in it at distances up to some 60 yards. The targets are placed in such a way that the shooter has to adopt less than favourable positions just to be able to see them, they might be behind branches or logs, up trees, even behind bushes forcing a shot from the prone position. Other lanes specify a standing or kneeling shot.

To be able to put across in film what it's like for a shooter to overcome these obstacles, it's best to show exactly what they are seeing, hence mounting a video camera on to the rifle scope does just that. Some of the gaps that have to be shot through can be so small that any off scope axis filming will simply not be showing what has to be overcome, and an important element to the sport would be missing. It's more than holding a rifle still with the cross hairs on the target, the elevation, distance, and the wind play a part in the sighting of the target, this can only be demonstrated in practice by looking through the scope. It's a far more sophisticated art than you might imagine.

The image was put here to impress anybody, your thinking that is something you have to deal with, I'm simply sharing things I do for the sake of discussion and conversation, it's one of my hobbies and has been put here for those who might be interested. If that is distasteful to you then your potentially negative thinking is firmly your problem, for I am not going to stop unless the forum administration deems it appropriate. Also please consider that my 'clear talent' means I can knock out these things without a second thought, it really is no big deal, you're basically voicing dissent as a consequence of my being able to do these things easily, which is silly frankly, especially in view of all the other things I've shown here which does include camera steadies and far more universally usefull video accessories.

I'm simply sharing, please get used to that.