Are Deadshot's abilities possible in real life?
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Prince_of_IMDb — 9 years ago(October 26, 2016 08:37 AM)
Can someone be born with a hereditary disposition to have a 99.9% accuracy when shooting or throwing projectiles? Sort of like a savant musician but for spatial intelligence?
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Prince_of_IMDb — 9 years ago(October 26, 2016 01:33 PM)
May I ask why not? Clearly athleticism and spatial intelligence can be hereditary in families. If physical abilities can be passed down from generation or people can be naturally gifted in the Piano like an autistic savant, why can't it be the same with being good at hand-eye coordination / uber-supreme accuracy?
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blade025 — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 09:56 PM)
I doubt itthe reason is just the nature of a gun and it's recoil. During the target practice scene, deadshot was shooting his gun and hitting the targets through one hole that he made and he was shooting in controlled bursts. There's no way in hell anyone would be able to do that just because of recoil. Even if a gun was on a tripod and was being shot using a remote trigger, the recoil would always change it's trajectory to the point where shooting it through a previous hole at those burst would be impossible to obtain. Sure you can be a great shot, but there's no way anyone could do what he did as fast as he did it. Not to mention he shot some mafia dude from the top of a building via a ricochet
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DethstruXioN — 9 years ago(October 26, 2016 01:55 PM)
I think it might play a role down the line.
I mean, evolution is always in motion, it is not a coincidence that flowers seem to have the right stuff to get a bee to fertilize another plant for them.
The plants might not be aware that the bees help them directly, but they still expand on their plan to produce pollen and bright colors because it seems to work for them.
So, long story short, if families will continue to do acrobatics and athletics, it might be running through the family as they say.
But i dont think you can just be born with an accuracy "curse/gift".
Ive seen babies throw clean dunks, so some are obviously more advanced than others, but if they are like savants, they could also be very limited in many other things.
Savants are good at copying things, improvisation is not their forte usually, an accuracy savant would most likely need specific circumstances.
But then again, there are some people who seem really gifted, but many will also tell you that they have trained hard for it for many years.
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vasq6876 — 9 years ago(October 26, 2016 09:18 PM)
Though it's conceivable that someone might be born with naturally great hand/eye coordination which would make them a great shot, it's unlikely anyone would have the ability to shoot repeatedly at a target and hit the same hole. It's not completely unheard of; George Patton once supposedly lost out on an Olympic medal because a couple of shots went into the same hole and without an extra hole, were counted as a miss, but it's a highly unlikely thing.
Even if someone had the ability to repeatedly, physically move their body in the exact same manner down to the millimeter, shots would still be partially determined by the quality of the ammunition, the firearm, the weather, the temperature, the wind, and even the surroundings. The recoil from the gun moves the person, so there's a constant shifting that has to happen to stay on target, and every shot that is taken, the gun suddenly becomes lighter forcing a slight shift as well.
Even highly calibrated machines can't really throw the exact same powder charge into a case when loading ammunition. People who hand load their ammo use micrometers to try to get as close as possible, but these are not for bulk like ammo that was being blown out at full auto, and in any case, the shooter would have no way to know what type of ammo was in a firearm before beginning to shoot the way Deadshot did.
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everythingangels — 9 years ago(October 26, 2016 09:59 PM)
No. Not unless the person "born" is some sorta cyborg/robot since there are so many environmental factors involved and such. Heck, just being a human means that a person's body can impact how well they're going to be able to shoot - vision deteriorates as moisture is drawn from the eyes and brain by outside heat, sweat running down the forehead can cause problems seeing the target, high blood pressure results from low water content in the body along with fatigue, weakness, lower back pains, inflammation, headaches, etc
And ignoring the shooter's own temperature, we're going to have to concern ourselves with not just outside temperature, but barrel temperature and temperature of the ammunition combined with such things as wind trajectory. Warm air is thinner and less dense than cool air.
And anyone that has shot a gun much at all knows that it's impossible to get a gun to shoot every shot exactly the same - there are just too many variables.
Having said all that no one knows exactly how Chuck Norris came to be, but despite everything we'd like to think we know about how the universe works - it is apparent that there can be such a cosmic force that has 100% accuracy if it chose to use some sort of silly weapon. Though why such a force would want to use a silly gun when it has the powers of its fist is beyond me. -
Cotton-mouth — 9 years ago(October 28, 2016 11:32 AM)
Olympics competitive marksmen prove it's not possible. Likewise, the NBA shooters and MLB pitchers prove that while repetitive accuracy, actually narrow margin precision, is at best in the 75 to low 80 percentages.
Human neuromotor/neuromuscular control, hand-to-eye coordination and attention/focus abilities waver too much for high 90% level precision.
We have had expert snipers aiming from astounding distances and threading the needle maybe 2-5x in a row, but beyond that it's very hard to maintain that level of precision.