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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
To be honest I don't think it matters what limit you put on a magazine if you have to take a second or two to reload then find your next target, its the ability to fire rounds quickly without having to take your eye off the targets at all that is the problem, the reason the military dropped bolt action rifles is because it was ungodly slow to shoot the things on target, evn a well trained rifleman would be lucky to get more than 5 or 6 aimed shots off in 30 seconds
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The British Soldiers in the early 1900's had to participate in the mad minute shooting drill. The minimum requirement to pass was 10 aimed round in a minute and that's with a 5 round top loading clip.
The World Record for accurate firing of a bolt action rifle is 36 rounds in a minute using the same Lee Enfield bolt action rifle.
But you're right about a couple of things. With a semi automatic rifle, and an easy to reload magazine feed, you can keep you're eyes downfield and very quickly get back in battery.
I will add, that as much fun as it was to fire a fully automatic SMG in the army or the cranky as hell FN-C2 Squad weapon, Fully Automatic fire tends to be really inefficient as its next to impossible to control the weapon accurately after the first three rounds and you tend to find yourself punching holes in the horizon.
I always preferred a single shot semi automatic because you could conserve ammunition which is important considering that you have to carry ammunition. And after every shot you could adjust down field very quickly.