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Deaf Smith · August 29, 2012, 10:25 PM

If all other factors are equal, yes training and skill help.

Always has been that way, just ask the USMC and Army if their training was not a give factor in Iraq and Afghanistan. And that is also why they now spend so much time on marksmanship. They did a 180 degree turn from the Vietnam 'spray-n-pray' to precise marksmanship (and the optics help to!)

Yes, skill is not everything but again, but all other things being equal, it does help.

Deaf

August 29, 2012, 10:25 PM	#9
Deaf Smith Senior Member Join Date: October 31, 2000 Location: Texican! Posts: 2,693	If all other factors are equal, yes training and skill help. Always has been that way, just ask the USMC and Army if their training was not a give factor in Iraq and Afghanistan. And that is also why they now spend so much time on marksmanship. They did a 180 degree turn from the Vietnam 'spray-n-pray' to precise marksmanship (and the optics help to!) Yes, skill is not everything but again, but all other things being equal, it does help. Deaf __________________ “We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality” Ayn Rand