Mr. Frazier. Well, may I say this first. I do not consider the crosshair as being defective, but only the adjusting mechanism does not have enough tolerance to bring the crosshair to the point of impact of the bullet. As to how that would affect the lead—the gun, when we first received it in the laboratory and fired these first targets, shot high and slightly to the right.
If you were shooting at a moving target from a high elevation, relatively high elevation, moving away from you, it would be necessary for you to shoot over that object in order for the bullet to strike your intended target, because the object during the flight of the bullet would move a certain distance.
The fact that the crosshairs are set high would actually compensate for any lead which had to be taken. So that if you aimed with this weapon as it actually was received at the laboratory, it would be necessary to take no lead whatsoever in order to hit the intended object. The scope would accomplish the lead for you.
I might also say that it also shot slightly to the right, which would tend to cause you to miss your target slightly to the right.
Mr. Eisenberg. Now, on that last question, did you attempt to center the windage crosshair, to sight-in the windage crosshair?
Mr. Frazier. We attempted to, and found that it was changing—the elevation was changing the windage. So we merely left the windage as it was.
Mr. Eisenberg. Can you say conclusively that the windage crosshair could not be centered in, sighted-in?
Mr. Frazier. No, sir. I would say that the windage could have been centered in the telescope to bring the windage to the aiming line.
Mr. Eisenberg. So that—and if that had been done, then you would not have this problem of dispersion to the right?
Mr. Frazier. That's true.