SSgt Burton wrote:
However I have a great deal of difficulty believing that-
1) Drake would take the time to pick up a secondary weapon in the heat of falling back while hosing everything in sight that wasn't human and,
2) Is it possible for a smartgunner to kneel down and pick something up off the floor easily and quickly enough to risk doing it while trying to hold off an assault?
Kevin
Both are plausible. For point 1: If there were a momentary lapse in available targets, I can see him taking a few seconds to pick up a dropped weapon he had stepped over. He was likely acutely aware of his ammunition limitations, and developing a backup plan while watching your ammo counter fall lower and lower is believable. If you want to read too much into it (because we never do that around here), Drake barely misses a beat between the M56 stopping firing, "Shit!," and ejecting the rig and readying the flame unit. Almost as though he was prepared for it.
And point 2: I've worn the rig a couple times, and I've spent an extended period of time around a Marine wearing the smartgun rig. While clearly no expert, I feel I have a fairly good idea of the range of mobility allowed and what you can and can not do while strapped in. The left arm is relatively free. The spring arm holds the weight pretty well, mostly just needing to be stabilized. I could imagine taking a large step backward with the right foot, and being able to stoop down enough to grab a weapon on the ground with the left hand while walking backwards. Particularly if the weapon was not flat on the ground, but possibly propped up against something, as the "hive" environment they were in was hardly barren terrain.
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