Goodbye US! (Kabul airport)
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No, they don't. And the Afghans were notorious for their excellent marksmanship when fighting the Brits. I blame the introduction of AK and other automatics, replacing the Lee-Enfields and even older (and self made) guns they have had.
Also more recently they Taliban in particular got famous in the combat-footage community with their impressive sharpshooter work using thermal scopes on the M16s. Many a turkey shooting of the gov troops (single shots of course). 2 guys with the thermals were even in their video where a dozen of so proclaim the Islamic State in the presidential office.
'they' do - and by 'they', I mean specifically the morons I spoke of, not the ones actually smart enough to aim.
It was smoothbore vs rifled. Simple as that.