The Pilum is quite accurate, there is no bullet drop, it just vanishes when it surpasses it's in-game limit. That baby will go as straight as it can until that point if fired correctly.

I've seen it a million times where people will fire the pilum from twenty meters and still miss the damn APC, then they fire a second shot as they try to account for target mobility, and again over shoot that baby horribly. I believe it is the primary the immobile reticule on the pilum that screws impatient players over.

Though the reticule is immobile, you still need to account for it. Running then diving prone and firing will not solve that problem, it'll make it worse. Try grabbing an assault rifle and go prone, but instead of tapping the prone button just hold it. Now look at your reticule, it will be as wide as it can possible get until you let loose the prone key. Why, I have no idea, but that's how it is, and like many things in the heat of the battlefield, some users just mash the button and don't realize they are still holding it down. Now your aim is jacked up seven ways to Sunday. Try firing the Pilum from the crouched position.

In these pictures, this is how holding the prone key affects your accuracy:

1. Prone

2. While prone, moving forward. See the little affect on the reticule.

3. Going to prone and still pressing the prone key, notice how spread my reticule is.

4. While the prone key is still held, look at the sporadic fire.

This is how you correctly line up your target to your reticule. I've noted peoples lack at hitting targets around 80-100 meters accurately.

1. Center mass on the reticule is the top of the inner circle. The outside ring is the horizontal and vertical limits of the actual pilum during it's flight, by using the sliders below and on the left side of the reticule (Discussed below)

2. Shot is fire, the Pilum is directly on course and lined up where the top of the inner circle was. Note: The reticule in the picture is offset because of the recoil.

3. Direct Hit.

The second mistake is not accounting for movement, either of the individual or target. In this next set of photos, you utilize the sliders to indicate where to place your shot. Again, 100 meters firing at a supply box this time.

This is moving to the left, notice the sliders position.

1. While moving to the right, I set up the box to be with in the outside circle. To account for the movement, I fire when the box is to the right of the inner circle. The center mass of my reticule is pushed up, so the top of the box is aligned to the bottom of the inner circle because of the left slider. The left slide says the pilum is going to go down on it's course, there fore I accounted for it by raising the reticule. (A bit of kentucky windage)

2. Direct hit

This is how the holding prone key affects your pilum shot, many of you will notice these results before on the battlefield and probably said "what the butt" because it was one of those really important one time shots.

1. Notice my sliders are perfectly settled though.

2. In this shot my round takes a major dive.

3. In this shot, my round goes to the left.
Now all of these shots were fired perfectly steady, but even though the cross hair is not the same as the rifle, it still is affected by that extreme spread. Now that should cover it all, the pilum is super easy to use once you get the feel and you utilize the sliders, you'll be picking infantry off from 100+meters.