Yeah, I can understand the frustration on that point with VATS. I've had a few instances like you, where what I thought I was clicking ended up being something else. I'm hoping it becomes easier to peg the more I do it though. Of course, I'm a lot like Jace in that I prefer scopes for long range attacks, so it may be that I hardly use VATS once I get a happy fun time sniper rifle of some sort. I've got the pipe sniper, but only about 6 rounds of .308 so I'm holding off on that one, heh.