Realism hit? with stabilized view

[Coyote88]

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

Do you remember the scene in Das Boot,where the captain was about to fire at the incoming destroyer they had just spotted,and the waves were rolling all over the scope,yet the actual crosshair remained quite stable, if not perfectly still.

I notice that in almost every movie or tv show that features a view through a rifle scope. It's almost like they filmed the scene with a camera firmly attached to a dolly and then superimposed the cross hairs or something!