Dual Weilding
 

Is it actually an effective way of engaging targets or is it just hollywood? :confused:

I've never tried it, but the answer is that yes, it's just Hollywood. In real life, trying to fire two pistols (or worse, two SMGs), one in each hand, is ridiculously inaccurate and you won't be able to handle the recoil. Actors can only do it because they're firing blanks, which have much less recoil than live rounds.

Hollywood. You won't hit shit - though I have to argue about not being able to handle the recoil with a pistol. It's just shooting a pistol one-handed, anyone should be able to do that.

Yeah, especially if you are firing both at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8KWW...C3F6AE&index=9

Arg....

I found out that Modern Warfare 2 is going to have dual wielding Desert Eagles....Now that just upsets me

If you're familiar with point shooting, or were trained in point shooting, that's basically all it is. You can be accurate with this style of shooting if you practice.

It's not a sound tactical method of dealing with a real life situation, but it's a hell of a lot of fun if you're shooting up bottles or in my case watermelons and apples.

I have done this for fun many times. Usually with a smith 39 in one hand, and a 1911 in the other. It's also fun with a team of 38 revolvers.

Two at the same time, though? I can shoot pistols one-handed, but it takes a bit more concentration to control and focus than firing two-handed. I find it hard to imagine that it wouldn't be a LOT more difficult with twice the workload. But maybe I'm wrong, I've never tried dual-wielding before (because I've never been on a range where I could do it without getting kicked out).

About the only tactical sense I can see shooting akimbo making is if you were going for suppressive fire. Everything else, either you're just not human or you're not hitting squat (at least, not at any respectable pace).

There is actually this photo that came out of the Mexican Drug wars that shows a Mexican Federal Police agent using 2 handguns at the same time.
I'll post it if i can locate it.

-edit> here it is

http://www.demotivateus.com/posters/...nal-poster.jpg

Other than that its probably crap.

I've always figured it's very much a hollywood thing. Come to think of it, it does seem to be in quite a few movies/games; The Matrix, pretty much any Chow Yun-Fat movie, Max Payne video game, etc. I mean, it's possible to pratice a lot and become somewhat adequate with it, but what's the point. I figure it's much better to have one weapon and have control of it. That way the person will actually be able to hit something that's more than a couple of meters away lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q4zv2QGdos

One of the reasons it seems to work so well in movies is because the actors don't ever have to worry about reloading or don't care about their gun and can just throw it away when it's empty. So that's another reason why it doesn't work.

As it is pointed out. It's movie style fighting. Real gun battles are never like that in the movies, unless the director stresses on realism, like in Heat or some war movies.

It's like comparing to martial arts combat in movies to real life. There are certain stylized martial arts that were designed to be flashy in the movies to appeal to audiences. Real life sword fights don't last 10 minutes.