Nope not "silly" at all. A few years back we were doing a precision NV training class with Surefire and Scotty Reitz. If anyone knows Scotty he is OLD SCHOOL LAPD, REAL old school from the days you went to the hospital if you messed with LAPD in any little way. They used to send their trash to our neck of the woods for sloppy seconds, but that's another story....
Anyhoot, we're all out that evening with a bunch of students for the night portion of the precision training and Scotty had never worn a PVS-14 let alone shot with an IR laser. The class was shooting at that time with the new LMT .308's, AN/PVS-22's, DBAL-A3's and melon worn 14's. Scotty put the helmet on, (never even strapped it), picked up the LMT raised the weapon no higher than his hip and took 9 out of 10 at 250 yards at a 14" steel plate. He then put down the weapon, took off the helmet and spouts, "is that all that's to it?"
Good stuff...
Vic