To be fair they're not alone in this. A *lot* of people assume firearms don't need to have any real physical strength to use dependably beyond pistol ranges.
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Replying to @loudpenitent
Right but they do think it matters but in the wrong direction. A rifle is harder to fire when standing and moving, yes, but Spore Zombie Stepdad by the nature of the game always has SZG hang back and act as fire support, where she can use other things to absorb recoil
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Like I'm pretty sure that I would be knocked on my ass by firing any longarm.
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Replying to @loudpenitent
So would I, but not if you were braced against a wall, firing from a sniper position, like most hunters and Spore Zombie Girl in this particular fight scene
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent
There's a couple different things being conflated here, like "strength" in and of itself isn't what keeps you from being knocked over by recoil, muscles have to have something to push against in order to exert strength
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Hollywood greatly exaggerates the amount of force firearms impart, like it's not actually possible for even a high power bullet to knock a human being across the room, or for that matter for a human being to be knocked across the room by recoil
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Most of the stuff you see about people flying to the ground when firing a gun is them losing their *balance* because they weren't braced properly and because they have their own psychological flinch reaction to the gun going off
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If you hear the clichéd advice "Squeeze the trigger, don't 'pull' it" that's what it means People ironically overcompensate for the recoil they expect by pulling the whole gun backwards when they pull the trigger (causing their aim to fly upward)
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When they should be trying to keep their hands and the rest of their body still (hence "squeezing" the gun)
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Anyway small women do pretty successfully hunt with rifles but they also do win target competitions with pistol shooting So it's mostly a matter of training
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It has to do a lot with the round you fire as well as the gun too, like they usually recommend beginning target shooting with a .22 rimfire, which has a lot less kinetic energy than a higher powered round (but will still kill an unarmored human if it hits your vitals)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I'm generally told .22 is a perfectly serviceable round for hunting and reasonable self-defense.
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Size of weapon, caliber of bullet, length of barrel, material (metal vs polymer, wood vs metal vs poly/etc stock for rifles/shot) all a factor. There are pistols built specifically for rifle/shotgun caliber rounds other than the Desert Eagle - in theory large rounds in handgun..
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