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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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i'd agree with the inaccuracy of the auto fire - the LV shooter shot thousands of rounds using the bump stock and 'only' killed 52 people (granted at distance) and was just relying on the rounds and/or velocity of the rounds to inflict sufficient damage to raise the body count... an assumption on my part of course as the guy was killed.
however, i would imagine that it is a huge difference between trained operators and the majority of the people involved in the mass shootings.
they are looking big groups of crowds and just using a 'spray and pray' approach...they don't have to be a 'good' marksman or conserve ammo - they are just looking to do as much harm to as many people as possible in as quick a time as possible.