• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    US special forces have front heavy guns with thicker barrels, lights, lasers, quad rails etc.

    And look at how well they do, the weight must be the secret!

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ever seen that episode of The Office where Jim gradually fills Dwight’s phone handle with nickels, and then removes them all? Then Dwight hits himself in the face when he picks up the phone?

    These people would be shooting over the top of anyone’s heads. They’re not hitting anything.

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      4 months ago

      And how good is your marksmanship with the weights in the way,?

      Don’t these guns kick up anyway? Wouldn’t you need to hold them down?

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        4 months ago

        Well that’s kinda my point. Even before you fire, if you weight the barrel like that then when you take it off you will naturally want to aim higher than necessary. By the time you add recoil, you aren’t even close anymore.

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          4 months ago

          One would assume this is just temporary resistance training so they can build muscles to keep the rifle in position, not marksmanship practice.

          Right? Right??!?!

          Or a joke photo being taken seriously.

          But that would never happen to NCD.