Reality-testing / Playtesting the Guns Default . . .

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Look, the 200-hour figure needn't be taken with that amount of precision. The point is that I didn't have prior gun training, and had very little gun-like practice (surely not enough even for one point in Gun Sport).

There are plenty of reasons to assume that Guns skill is easy enough to learn that 200 hours per point is wildly overestimating the time for most people.

200 hours per point in the skill is an average for all skills. Nuclear Physics probably goes slower, as I doubt that it's common for people to gain 12 points in it and becoming a professional nuclear phycicist by studying really hard for a year. Guns is learned much faster, especially the first few points.

When on a gun range in New Hampshire, I had to hire an instructor in order to shoot the guns I wanted, because of their own rules that no one without a licence shoot unaccompanied. He was a serviceman and his military job was pistol instructor.

After I had shot the first five shots, he said that he was glad I knew how to shoot, now we could focus on tactical exercises. Some people are difficult to train, because they have bad habits or are afraid of the gun. Some people need a few hours to learn. And some people can shoot real guns the same way they shoot toy guns, paintball guns and air guns, because at a firing range, at short range, a real gun is, if anything, only easier to use.

I learned rapid target acquisition from rest, using cover, rapid reload, failure-to-stop drill and immediate action drill, but I didn't really have to learn how to point the gun at a target within 20 yards and hit.

Getting military recruits to Guns -12 takes surprisingly little time and effort. It's getting them to shed some of the less desirable Disadvantages, pick up a few of the more sought-after and get skill in Soldier and associated skills that takes most of the time.