Reality-testing / Playtesting the Guns Default . . .

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Tomsdad

FWIW I think that the -4 default probably gets reduced in smaller quicker increments (and I suspect that even if you've never fired a real pistol before we've done some kind of hand eye co-ordination thing that starts us on our way in this even if it below the granularity of 1st point in GURPS skill)

This is assuming that Vicky you've never shot a rifle or rifle like thing either, because you might be getting a slight default bump from that as well (again even if it's below GURPS granularity).

Definitely didn't do 200 hours of shooting with any real guns. I did have toy guns, so I at least have a default, unlike people who actually never did any gun-like shooting.

Even if I would've had a point in any type of Guns (whether Rifle or Pistol), I would still suffer enough Familiarity penalties to get it back down:
-2 for unfamiliar weapon type ('normal' 9mm pistol) and -2 for unfamiliar action type (Safe Action).