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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
One thing that gets exagerated badly is the concept of marksmenship with a pistol, for the most part, they're designed around close in work and dumping as many bullets into the center mass as possible. If your nervous or have a shaky hand, more then likely your going to miss, and as you continue to shoot, the recoil is going to take your rounds high and to the right. Anything outside of lets say 10 meters is iffy territory.
I always laugh at the movies where the guy with a pistol takes aim and shoots at the guy on the third floor of a building two city blocks away and hits him.
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The "why didn't you just shoot him in the leg' argument never flies with me either. Have you ever watched police videos when they get in a shootout during a traffic stop, and the cop is 5 feet away from the guy, shoots like 15 times and doesn't hit him once? Maybe thats just a bad aim cop, maybe the situation was so intense that it affected him, who knows.. but there are several videos out there that prove its not exactly easy in the heat of the moment to get the target in 1 shot.