GURPS Tactical Shooting

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

Like I said, pogue. I didn't say I trained enough to be good at it. But it is obviously a skill that is practiced, and by a fairly broad group of people. I'm just objecting to the idea that it's a rare skill.

I'd say I got it down to 2-3 seconds, usually, if the top of my mag pouch was folded back so I didn't have to pop that open too. Why would it be 1 second? Dropping the mag is a free action with familiarity with the weapon, FD(ammo) eliminates the second for drawing the mag, then you have two more Ready actions to insert the mag and hit the bolt release.

In Basic, reloading is a 3 second process. I accidentally took one second off that for Familiarity and one off for Fast-Draw (Ammo). Looks like that is double-dipping and it ought to be four seconds before reductions, which is the new time given in Tactical Shooting.

In that case, looks like it should be two seconds for a trained operator with Fast-Draw (Ammo). On the other hand, I stand by the assertion that doing this while walking, Dodging, maintaining Situational Awareness or any other thing that an unmodified Ready allows you to do ought to be very hard.

I think that a 'normal' Fast-Draw (Ammo) is actually an All-Out (Determined) Ready for a +4 to a DX-based task.

But I also note that the off-hand for any given task is whichever hand you did not originally train the task with. If your character learned to write with his right hand (because he grew up during times when teachers enforced that for everyone), but pitch with his left, that's not worth a Perk. It's just a feature, or possibly worth a Quirk if you figure out to work in a roleplaying element.

In the same way, being trained to Fast-Draw (Ammo) with your left is perfectly valid and would mean that you performed it with full skill when using the left hand, but -4 when using the right, because that is not the way you trained to do it. This would apply even if the character was otherwise right-handed.