OOZ662 said: Perspective. She's looking through it with her right eye.
It's not very obvious from this picture, but soviet PSO/POSP scopes have a huge rubber eyepiece. These are actually supposed to be pressed against the eye. It's because the objective aperture is only 24mm wide, which means it doesn't exactly gather a lot of light. To maximize the effectivity, the black rubber eyepiece blocks the light in the surroundings. Think of it as of turning off the lights in the cinema so you can see the screen.
Even so, I can't imagine someone leaning their head over the top of the butt in order to use the eye opposite the gun. That sounds dangerous in the first place.
OOZ662 said: Even so, I can't imagine someone leaning their head over the top of the butt in order to use the eye opposite the gun. That sounds dangerous in the first place.
Don't misunderstand me, I didn't oppose your statement. She's definitely using her right eye. If anything, I was trying to correct MacGuffin - soviet scopes don't leave "idiot marks".
Crotalus said: The SVD usually doesn't go bang with the safety lever up. It would make quite the unpleasant noise as the bolt carrier smashed into it if it did.
So do you mean Iris reached for the bolt by mistake by turning the safety lever down,so she eject the magazine which is still loaded,in order to cover her mistake?
Nope. The way it's drawn here the safety lever wouldn't ever reach the charging handle, the dust cover would stop it (even if the rifle fired like that in the first place).
You should try using a semiautomatic rifle every once in a while.She reached for the bolt by instinct...Painful...She pretended she was going to change magazine!