Yes, we do spend considerable time putting rounds down range, but even after hundreds of thousands of round being put down range automatic fire is still hard to control. I have fired my weapon of burst once in my entire career, almost 7 years, and that was after I was instructed to do so because we needed to waste the rest of our ammo on the range.[R-DEV]Rudd wrote:Ask Thermis, I'm pretty sure he knows what US Army soldiers do...hint hint,![]()
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The only individual weapons that are fired regularly on automatic are M249 and M240s, and those are only fired in short bursts and normally with the bipod resting on something. I've fired a M240 from a standing position, and that thing is hard enough to hold by itself let alone try and control recoil. The M249 is easily fired in standing and kneeling positions without the bipod, but its crazy inaccurate at range its purely designed to provide suppressive fire not laser accurate lethal shots. Where as the M240 deployed correctly and with a good gunner can reach out and kill you with automatic fire at pretty good ranges.


