Is it possible to shoot a gun sideways

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The answer didn't come to me until another coach from the "hood" gave me a good reason why this technique would be used. In practice, it actually does utilize one very important sighting practice, but fails overall. This is a good idea in theory, but fails miserably in the actual execution. Sight Alignment : Sight alignment is how you line up the weapon to aim. You need to remember that the trajectory of the round doesn't automatically point at the target. Why I hate most movies with shooting in them.

You have to have control to make sure that both the back of the weapon and front are pointed at the target in a straight line. The easiest way to do this is what we were taught as "building the castle". You build the castle by lining up the three "turrets" or posts into a formation where the tops are all even and the posts all have even spacing between them.

This diagram shows what having an improperly built "castle" or rather how, having improper sight alignment will cause your sights to go off. The bottom is the correct method, however I disagree a bit on the sight picture element, because I believe in aiming center mast, as I have shown below.

Besides this, as long as you aim in the same place every time, you will still be all right. Sight picture : Sight picture is when you place your perfectly aligned sights, or in this case, the same thing every time, over your intended target in the same place.

The normal practice is to place the sighting posts over the center of your target. This creates a picture of how you should aim. With weapons that don't allow you to change your sights, you need to figure out how to aim and always offset the weapon to where the bullet will hit where you intend it to instead of where you are aiming.

As long as you know how to offset your weapon, this is not a problem that you are aiming low and left if your weapon shoots high and right. So technically, if you just aim the right the same way every time, you can predict where the bullet will go.

This is why sight picture is so important. You know where the weapon is in relation to the target. Below is what a good sight picture with good sight alignment looks like. They insist on holding the gun sideways which illustrates that they are mostly just posers and probably not responsible for the brutal crime currently investigated by the police.

Perhaps because this is his preferred style, his aim is terrible. Considering his Chinese Dragon motif, this may actually be a reference to the Chinese example above, rather than Gangstas. The cops even point out that this was foolishly done in imitation of "gangsta flicks. After being corrected one remarks "Wow, it lines up and everything! But when you're not actually pulling the trigger note Tory went flying courtesy of a special harness, a rope, and the rest of the team , it doesn't matter that this method is inaccurate.

They visited it again when testing how effective various firing stances are, with Adam remarking that he "always wanted to hold a gun like this! In The Newsroom , Will discovers that his date carries a pistol in her purse. After he removes the bullets, she points it at him to demonstrate what would happen to an attacker. He deftly disarms her and points her own gun back at her gangsta style, saying that this is more likely to happen. They missed. All of the blasters in Otherworld are meant to be held upside-down.

This means that guns are all impossible to aim, but maybe that justified the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship. On Party Down , Kyle tries to hold a gun sideways and Roman immediately tells him "no one holds a gun like that". Deconstructed and lampshaded in the pilot of Person of Interest. The protagonist John Reese walks in on a gun buy to acquire weapons , and asks the people involved if they've taken a firearms safety course. And then demonstrates it to them as he wipes the floor with the entire group.

Reese : Take you, for instance. You're holding that thing sideways. You can't aim it, and two: it'll eject a shell casing right into your face. Given Stephen's obsession with doing what feels good rather than what makes sense, it's not surprising that when he snaps and decides to shoot up the set, he's going to do it Gangsta Style. On a weaponry-themed Image Board , some anonymous posters had possibly Truth in Television pictures of gangsters in an African town shooting in all sorts of "gangsta" styles; it was mentioned that they followed a spray and pray principle and did it as macho posturing.

It wasn't until the release of Revenge of the Sith that LEGO finally corrected this, but seeing a literal army of "gangsta" battle droids was pretty amusing. Tabletop Games. Specifically, all attacks are treated as "Unsighted Shooting" with all the usual benefits and drawbacks thereof.

However, the stance encourages limp-wristing penalty to Guns and, if used with an automatic, increases the likelihood that the weapon will malfunction. In Hero System 's combat handbook, holding a gun sideways incurs a penalty on attack rolls but adds a bonus to Presence when attempting to impress people.

Vampire: The Masquerade has "Gangsta Style" as a special attack. It has two drawbacks: reducing your accuracy and increasing the chance of a misfire, and provides absolutely no benefit whatsoever.

Generally and surprisingly averted in the 50 Cent game series. Jackson and his cohorts fire their armament in the standard manner, though foes will occasionally cant their guns the ninety degrees required of this trope. In 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand , Fiddy will only hold guns like this if he's pairing them up in gameplay.

The Gold Edition of Aliens vs. Predator gives the Marine new and mostly useless pistols as a weapon. When alternate fire is used with a pair of them, he turns them sideways. In Blood II the alternate fire for the single pistol fires the gun this way and increases the rate of fire. It's apparently an emergency mode to quickly empty the pistol into a close-range attacker. Notice how Caleb points the barrel downwards as he shoots. The special sniper rifle from Modern Warfare 3 's "Eye of the Storm" mission can be fired in this manner if the player switches to using the red dot sight on it.

Said sight is mounted 45 degrees on the left side of the barrel, though, so the gun is tilted in the opposite direction you'd expect, and not to the full 90 degrees either. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare , during night-time operations in both single and multi-player modes, the player will tilt his rifle 45 degrees instead of looking down the gun's optics. This is because the player is aiming instead with the mounted IR laser, as most optical attachments are not compatible with NVGs.

City of Villains , Troperiffic as ever, has the Thugs summoned by Masterminds and the Masterminds themselves use dual pistols like this. One of the reasons the players have been begging for years for a fully fleshed-out powerset to be given to the ranged combat classes. And now those who have pre-ordered 'Going Rogue' have access to the Dual Pistols power sets for Blaster, Defenders and Corruptors that employs Gunfu with liberal amounts of sideways shooting.

Due to an animation goof, his finger isn't even on the trigger when he fires, and the gun shows no recoil. Dante in Devil May Cry fires his twin pistols this way when firing while sidestepping. In addition, in the third game, he often turns one pistol or the other sideways if firing at separate targets in his Gunslinger fighting style.

Also, in cutscenes, or if using gunslinger mode to fire at a single target, Dante will hold both guns sideways and hold his arms across each other, left gun on the right side, right gun on the left side. First done in the series at the end of the first game, coupled with Dante's Catchphrase: "Jackpot! Vergil - who usually doesn't use guns - does this when he and Dante momentarily team up to finish off Arkham in Devil May Cry 3.

Dungeon Fighter Online has a gunner class. Most of their shots are normal, but Multi-headshot and Moving Shot skills turn sideways like Dante. In Escape from Tarkov , small offset sights exist that can be mounted to a player's gun, which causes it to be tilted 45 degrees when aiming with it. While the idea is to allow a gun to accommodate a second sight system in case the primary one is a magnified scope, they can still be mounted standalone, meaning players could — and have — run around with guns they have to tilt to aim, just because.

Male Elvaan from Final Fantasy XI tend to hold guns and crossbows in this fashion, as well as firing bows in an awkward diagonal position. Now it makes sense why their DEX is so crappy. Female Elvaan, however, seem to know what they're doing. You even see CJ using it with Guns Akimbo - he even fires a pair of Sawed-Off Shotgun s this way if you level your skill with that weapon up all the way.

Note that all other weapons are held conventionally well, as conventionally as possible, for the minigun. The franchise does this from time to time, but the two HD Universe games are the most promient example, since you normally don't aim this way.

In Hac X , this is how the player character holds the Uzi. At the end of the first trailer for Hitman , 47 tilts his gun before he fires it. This is purely so that the casing will fly straight upwards and he can snatch it out of the air. In Hotline Miami , one-handed guns are always held in this fashion. The sequel ramps this up. Fat characters will hold all guns including assault rifles and shotguns with only one hand sideways.

Jak and Daxter 's Jak occasionally does this when firing the scatter gun. This can be done in Jurassic Park: Trespasser , since the game lets you rotate the objects in your hand including guns in any manner you like. It serves no practical purpose and absolutely kills your long range accuracy assuming you don't line the sights back up , but it does look cool.

Con and Coyote Smith in Killer7 fire their guns in some manner resembling this. Coyote actually holds his gun almost upside-down, and sure enough his recoil is much stronger and random than most of the other characters'. Con is closer to the traditional example; he's not actually holding his guns out in front of him, so much as he has one arm outstretched to the side and the other crossed over his front, so both guns are angled to the left.

His case may be in part because Con is actually blind; the sights wouldn't do him any good anyway, and if he's turned to the side, that means one of his ears is turned towards his target for his super-hearing to help. Though that is hardly his worst problem. Also, Omega in Mega Man Zero 3 shoots his pistol buster like this, which is odd considering that, since they went to the trouble of making a new sprite for it and that he's supposed to be in Zero's original body, why not give him an Arm Cannon?

The technique of turning a C96 sideways so the recoil guides your hand to the next target in a sweep is referred to as Bandit Shooting; Snake and Sigint have a discussion about using a Mauser this way. The fact that it's primarily a Chinese technique with that gun is one of the hints that she's not who she claims to be. However, on the one occasion he actually fires the weapon in this manner, he has legitimate reasons for doing so - primarily, it's to keep as much of his body behind cover as possible rather than presenting it for the numerous enemies he's exchanging bullets with to shoot him; a minute earlier he takes a shot with his right hand at the front of the rifle to stabilize it against the corner of the wall in question, using his left to actually fire.

Also, towards the end of the game, a Navy man can be seen briefly with a canted weapon, to more easily clear the consoles and equipment on the bridge of the battleship he's fighting from. So the rationale behind sideways shooting is that it has speed for aiming but lacks the accuracy for proper slight alignment aiming.

Gangsters value speed and are willing to be a little sloppy, whereas marksmen can take their time to aim, aim, aim. Read the whole explanation here. Gangsters hold there guns that way, because they did it in a movie. They did it in a movie because they were shown that way by some Israelis.

Want to know the truth, I am old and was there so listen up.