I think Nutty's panicked by the lack of accuracy, Sail.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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§ ita § - Jan 11, 2005 12:31:39 pm PST #9346 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Strix - Jan 11, 2005 12:33:21 pm PST #9347 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
A friend of mine puts time in now and again at an a local range. I want to go, just for educational purposes; if I ever need a character to use a gun, I want to know what it feels like.
Hi, all. I was going to post the first 6 pages of the new novel here, but I left it on my old hard drive. Now I have to plug The Monster back in and retrieve it. Dammit. And I was sure I'd backed it up to dick.
Er, to disk. Really, that's what I meant.
SailAweigh - Jan 11, 2005 12:33:50 pm PST #9348 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
the lack of accuracy
It just means he wings you instead of making the head shot. That's all. He's still hitting the target, just farther away from the center.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2005 12:34:16 pm PST #9349 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It just means he wings you instead of making the head shot
Ah. I thought she meant friendly fire.
SailAweigh - Jan 11, 2005 12:40:56 pm PST #9350 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I thought she meant friendly fire
There might be some of that, too. But only if you're standing right next to the person being fired at. A typical target has concentric rings, bullseye highest, outer ring lowest. You don't have to get all bullseyes (that would be the 300), but you can't be all in the outer ring and still qualify. Plus, we had to night qualify, which was 5 shots (out of 6) in a human silhouette with no external light source.
Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2005 12:42:20 pm PST #9351 of 10001
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I'm going to have to see if I can qualify one of these days. Hubby says I shoot better than he does, but I want a number.
Nutty - Jan 11, 2005 12:43:46 pm PST #9352 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I was gonna say. It's not the headshot I'm worried about; it's missing the target entirely and hitting me instead. Or, himself. I want my "marksmen" to be noticeably better at hitting their marks than someone who's only held a gun twice!
Clearly, I need to hang out only with experts.
SailAweigh - Jan 11, 2005 12:55:15 pm PST #9353 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I want my "marksmen" to be noticeably better at hitting their marks than someone who's only held a gun twice!
Let's hope most police get to the firing range a little more often than I did! Actually, by the time I was done with playing MP, I'd had to requalify 2 more times and was up into the low 200's. And in 9 months, I'd never had to draw my weapon. People were pretty safe around me. We were in more danger from the nut jobs who decided they didn't like being on limited duty for medical reasons and went into the office to shoot up the training equipment.
Susan W. - Jan 11, 2005 12:59:39 pm PST #9354 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
t insert standard whine about wishing I could find a way to play with the kind of guns my characters would use
SailAweigh - Jan 11, 2005 1:01:26 pm PST #9355 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hell, Susan, so would I!