To earn the gold "shutzenshneer" (pardon my anglicized phonetic spelling) a Soldier only needs to hit all 21 targets with the G36. That does not include the other weapons of the German military that have their own qual tables.
If the bulk of your military experience is spent firing blanks and then firing for qualification, it could be decades before anyone noticed an over heating problem.
Honestly the Germans ran a marksmanship qualification badge range for US Soldiers in Kandahar a few years back, and the ease US Soldiers had "shooting tight" with the G36 was quoted by Stars and Stripes.
Jimro
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