• Final Remix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    My brother used machine guns in his deployment, and apparently the hardest thing to get used to was to let the weight fight the muzzle climb, don’t lean into it like with other, lighter weapons. In training they’d regularly have guys shooting into the dirt because they expected more climb and compensated even though the gun was taking care of that already.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Tbh, you still see this with pistols too. Most of the recoil is actually the slide slamming backwards, and when the spring pushes the slide forward it then slams the gun back down, mostly where it was before