[OneWingedShark]

>There’s also the rotation problem you encounter with every automatic weapon. You have to keep ‘em pulled down, or “up” ~ else you’re just firing over their heads, or into the dirt.
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>Learning to properly handle your automatic weapon takes a heafty expense in ammunition.
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>A barrel of gasoline is much better.

I know about the automatic’s “pull” tendency; which is why I was suggesting the PS-90, the semi-auto/’civilian’ model, it has a good reflexive sight and a 50-round magazine. That *should* be enough to deal with a gang of 20, even assuming that it takes 2 hots to put them out-of-action (which is really overestimating their toughness and/or underestimating the rifleman’s accuracy).

[muawiyah]

With 20 targets of opportunity like that you could easily get overexcited and miss a few ~ so some might take three rounds to put away.

Good idea to develop a good count for your fire control ~ just like with an M60 or any other larger automatic weapon. Bursts of 2, bursts of 3, bursts of 4, bursts of 5.

I did the machine guns for "The Green Beret". Could not hear for two weeks!