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Originally Posted by maximusslade
It seems to me that there is a lot of statements that such and such document definiatly says that BB guns are innacurate or vice versa, all from supposedly credible sources. In my somewhat limited experience with government agencies and just plain being married, I have learned that any "fact" can be made to say one thing or another, so this is my line of thinking about BB guns.
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I think we are going overboard with the accuracy thing. I mentioned it merely in the context that there is documentary evidence in WWII that the old battleships which did NGFS as their bread-and-butter were better shooters than the Iowa's (as a group). The reason is the Iowa's simply didn't have the opportunity to practice as much - they were busy with carrier screen duties. The old battleships on the other hand got it down to an art because they had more opportunity to do so.
I brought this up ONLY in the context of a claim made by the author of the above study that the Iowa's took part in every major amphibious operation of WWII - a claim that isn't true on the face of it anyway. On its own the gunnery accuracy thing is nothing to get too worked up about.