In the trenches-

[JBinIll]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world-...from-a-bonfire

[SMOKEY]

Damn, isn't that goo? Visual proof that he is older than dirt.

[JB White]

Those periscope rifles had to be awful to fire. Always wondered how many actually fell to one of those.

[John Sukey]

I an sure quite a few germans fell to those rifles or they wouldn't have bothered to construct them. Sticking one's head over the parapet was an excellent way to get a hole in it. In fact dummy heads on a stick were used to locate the enemy snipers

[dave]

And who raised there head to see where the sniper was???

[Johan412th]

What a bizzare war for R&D, to say the least. It's amazing how much war changed over the following 20 years...

[JBinIll]

McBride's A Rifleman Went to War has quite a bit on how they located snipers in WW1 and sniping in the trenches.

[Johan412th]

That would be interesting to read. The First World War has always troubled me when it came to the concept of "modern" warfare. It was still such wholesale slaughter. Infantry tactics couldn't outmaneuver the machine gun.

[BruceHMX]

Also note the Long Lee beside him.

[John Sukey]

And who raised there head to see where the sniper was???

That's why they had trench periscopes. I have one in the collection. The only thing sticking over the parapet is a one inch diameter pipe with a mirror in it. There were also wood periscopes with larger mirrors.
Once the sniper was located the usual reply was an artillery round.
There is a book on the subject called "Sniping in France"