Snapshooting

Author: Sam Marquez

Snapshooting is absolutely the most important tactic you will ever learn; It is necessary if you want to win!

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Essentially, the purpose of snapshooting is to give you an advantage over the person you're gunfighting with. It will force them to duck down which will then grant you the freedom you need to advance or take out another opponent. Lets just focus on how to snapshoot.
Ever played Counter-Strike or Modern Warfare 2? If you have, you're probably familiar with the concept of burst fire, which is precisely the concept snapshooting relies on. Essentially, you're going to pop out the side of your bunker, Always the side, never the top, fire several shots 3 to 5, and then tuck back in. You shouldn't be out longer than three seconds ,which is the time it will take your opponent to ready his gun, aim, and fire, assuming he's not already in the ready position. That means YOU have got to be the one prepared. Before you pop out, make sure your gun is up and you're aiming in the general direction of your opponent. You dont necessarilly have to hit your opponent dead on for snapshooting to work, but you will need to at least hit in his immediate area if you want to scare your opponent enough to make him hide.

Once you've become pretty good at the basic concept, I recommend that you vary it up a bit. First pop out high and to your right, then low and to your left. Be unpredictable. Never let your opponent know where you're gonna go, and he will really be frustrated because chances are he wont be able to land a shot on you. If you really want to play at the expert level, start trying to read your opponent. What is his pattern of popping out? Does he come every 3-5 seconds? Does he go high, low, left, or right? After firefighting with a player for a few minutes chances are, that if you're looking, you'll notice his patterns. Adapt your play to these patterns. Time your shots so that whenever he pops out, paint is already in the air flying straight toward him. This will greatly increase your chances of getting your opponent out not to mention scare the pants off him!

Snapshooting is your basic tool for gunfighting, as you will learn. Its incredibly effective if performed correctly, and its definitely worth spending a couple hours out at your local field practicing how to do it.