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Originally Posted by Pooka
I have never fired a modern automatic weapon, but I have fired a Mauser machine pistol. This was about 50 years ago when I could still see what I was shooting at.
The first thing I figured out was that if the target was more than four feet away there was almost no way I was going to hit it. Think of holding a full sized jack-hammer with one hand and trying to carve a block of marble.
So then I used the add-on shoulder stock. Not much better, but now my shoulder and my wrist were sore.
I am sure that using both hands to hold the weapon would increase the accuracy, but that was not an option with the Mauser due to the fact I feared blowing my left hand off.
So I can see where if you were shooting from any distance at all it would be tough to have a tight grouping.
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Since you have fired an automatic weapon than you know that you never heard one in the video I am referring to, if of course you have seen the video that i am refering to. i expect there was a LOT of semi automatic fire. Semi automatic fire will not cause the effect you describe unless someone is such an incompetent shooter that they are just rapidly pulling the trigger hoping they hit something.