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There's also a school of thought that says aiming one-handed whilst standing sideways-on to your opponent presents a narrower target and thus makes you harder to hit; whether this makes up for your own increased difficulty in hitting anything is a matter for opinion. |
There's also a school of thought that says aiming one-handed whilst standing sideways-on to your opponent presents a narrower target and thus makes you harder to hit; whether this makes up for your own increased difficulty in hitting anything is a matter for opinion. |
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| ⚫ | And then there are cases when someone is using a longarm one-handed. These weapons were never even meant for one-handed use, but it happens for some reason. Submachine guns are popularly shown this way, as they often look good in one hand, but they are still intended for two-handed use. This is the only way rifles and such can be used [[Guns Akimbo]], but doesn't exactly look realistic. |
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For really big melee weapons being used in one hand, see [[One-Handed Zweihander]]. |
For really big melee weapons being used in one hand, see [[One-Handed Zweihander]]. |
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== Handguns, Shotguns and the Like == |
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== Anime and Manga == |
=== Anime and Manga === |
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* In ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', Kiritsugu holds his Contender thus, despite the whole "firing [[Magic Bullets|magic rifle bullets]]" thing. |
* In ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', Kiritsugu holds his Contender thus, despite the whole "firing [[Magic Bullets|magic rifle bullets]]" thing. |
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* In ''[[Noir]]'', Kirika does this frequently, and the directors even say that they specifically chose her weapon (a Beretta M1934) precisely so she could fire it with one hand. |
* In ''[[Noir]]'', Kirika does this frequently, and the directors even say that they specifically chose her weapon (a Beretta M1934) precisely so she could fire it with one hand. |
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* Subverted in ''[[DOGS Bullets and Carnage]]''. Mihai chastises Ian to "stop trying to look cool" and hold his gun in two hands when he sees him practicing with a one-handed grip. |
* Subverted in ''[[DOGS Bullets and Carnage]]''. Mihai chastises Ian to "stop trying to look cool" and hold his gun in two hands when he sees him practicing with a one-handed grip. |
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* Invoked and subverted in ''[[Queen and Country]]'': Russian gangsters hired to kill Tara Chace fire their guns one-handed; most of their bullets hit nothing, and one unlucky goon catches a stray bullet from his ally. |
* Invoked and subverted in ''[[Queen and Country]]'': Russian gangsters hired to kill Tara Chace fire their guns one-handed; most of their bullets hit nothing, and one unlucky goon catches a stray bullet from his ally. |
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* The T-800 from ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator 2: Judgement Day]]'' does this multiple times due to being a super-strong robot. Examples include in the canal chase sequence (where he shoots and cocks a shotgun one-handed) and his firing of a grenade launcher at Cyberdyne Systems (to disable multiple police cars). |
* The T-800 from ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator 2: Judgement Day]]'' does this multiple times due to being a super-strong robot. Examples include in the canal chase sequence (where he shoots and cocks a shotgun one-handed) and his firing of a grenade launcher at Cyberdyne Systems (to disable multiple police cars). |
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* At one point in ''Tombstone,'' Wyatt Earp blows away a fleeing enemy with a double-barreled shotgun, one-handed, while riding on a horse at full gallop. |
* At one point in ''Tombstone,'' Wyatt Earp blows away a fleeing enemy with a double-barreled shotgun, one-handed, while riding on a horse at full gallop. |
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* The hitman in ''[[Machete]]'' fires his assault rifle with one hand, and seems to have better accuracy than the goons who hold their rifles with both. |
* The hitman in ''[[Machete]]'' fires his assault rifle with one hand, and seems to have better accuracy than the goons who hold their rifles with both. |
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* ''[[The Dark Tower]]'': Roland specifically lampshades this; real gunslingers are so awesome they don't need to use the other hand to steady themselves. |
* ''[[The Dark Tower]]'': Roland specifically lampshades this; real gunslingers are so awesome they don't need to use the other hand to steady themselves. |
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** Not to mention that they are old west-style revolvers, which were made for one-handed use. |
** Not to mention that they are old west-style revolvers, which were made for one-handed use. |
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* Fontaine, from ''[[William Gibson|All Tomorrow's Parties]]'' does target shooting with a small calibre revolver, holding in it one hand. |
* Fontaine, from ''[[William Gibson|All Tomorrow's Parties]]'' does target shooting with a small calibre revolver, holding in it one hand. |
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* Discussed in the [[Tom Clancy]] novel ''Teeth Of The Tiger'', in which one of the protagonists expresses a preference for firing one-handed whilst standing side-on to the target, on the grounds that this presents a narrower profile and makes him harder to hit. Whether this makes up for the reduced accuracy (his preferred sidearm is a .45ACP weapon) is a matter for opinion. |
* Discussed in the [[Tom Clancy]] novel ''Teeth Of The Tiger'', in which one of the protagonists expresses a preference for firing one-handed whilst standing side-on to the target, on the grounds that this presents a narrower profile and makes him harder to hit. Whether this makes up for the reduced accuracy (his preferred sidearm is a .45ACP weapon) is a matter for opinion. |
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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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* ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'', Rick tends to fire his [[Revolvers Are Just Better|revolver]] this way. |
* ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'', Rick tends to fire his [[Revolvers Are Just Better|revolver]] this way. |
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* Most tabletop role-playing games featuring them consider pistols, revolvers, and possible futuristic equivalents thereof one-handed weapons as a matter of course. Two hands are for rifles, shotguns, and most automatic weapons. |
* Most tabletop role-playing games featuring them consider pistols, revolvers, and possible futuristic equivalents thereof one-handed weapons as a matter of course. Two hands are for rifles, shotguns, and most automatic weapons. |
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* ''[[GURPS]]'' assumes that characters fire all small arms one handed by default; using a second hand braces the gun, giving a small bonus to hit. |
* ''[[GURPS]]'' assumes that characters fire all small arms one handed by default; using a second hand braces the gun, giving a small bonus to hit. |
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* ''[[The World of Darkness]]'' games assume characters are firing pistols two-handed and has a higher Strength requirement for one-handed use. |
* ''[[The World of Darkness]]'' games assume characters are firing pistols two-handed and has a higher Strength requirement for one-handed use. |
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* ''[[Fallout]]'': 1 and 2 both had a trait that allowed you to use one-handed weapons better with an accuracy penalty to two-handed ones. |
* ''[[Fallout]]'': 1 and 2 both had a trait that allowed you to use one-handed weapons better with an accuracy penalty to two-handed ones. |
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** ''Fallout 3'' plays with it. By default, handguns are held one-handed and fired from the hip but using careful aiming (right mouse button in the PC version) makes the wielder hold the gun with both hands at eye-level as well as zooming in slightly. Also, the Gunslinger perk increases one-handed weapon accuracy. |
** ''Fallout 3'' plays with it. By default, handguns are held one-handed and fired from the hip but using careful aiming (right mouse button in the PC version) makes the wielder hold the gun with both hands at eye-level as well as zooming in slightly. Also, the Gunslinger perk increases one-handed weapon accuracy. |
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* The first-person models for some pistols in ''[[Call of Duty]]: [[Modern Warfare]] 2'' and ''3'' suggest that the player character holds and fires them in this manner, though this is not the case in third-person. |
* The first-person models for some pistols in ''[[Call of Duty]]: [[Modern Warfare]] 2'' and ''3'' suggest that the player character holds and fires them in this manner, though this is not the case in third-person. |
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== Web Original == |
=== Web Original === |
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* Arguably common in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]''; while it's rarely, if ever, outright said how a character with a handgun is actually holding it, handlers tend to assume the character is doing this instead of the proper two handed grip unless the post says otherwise or if it's a handgun such as a Wildey pistol or Desert Eagle that would be completely ''absurd'' to fire off one handed. This is, however, justified with guns like revolvers or the aforementioned Beretta M1934, which were designed to be able to be used one handed. |
* Arguably common in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]''; while it's rarely, if ever, outright said how a character with a handgun is actually holding it, handlers tend to assume the character is doing this instead of the proper two handed grip unless the post says otherwise or if it's a handgun such as a Wildey pistol or Desert Eagle that would be completely ''absurd'' to fire off one handed. This is, however, justified with guns like revolvers or the aforementioned Beretta M1934, which were designed to be able to be used one handed. |
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=== Real Life === |
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== [[Truth in Television]] == |
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* Many handgun shooting events require the shooter to use only one hand. |
* Many handgun shooting events require the shooter to use only one hand. |
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* A common misconception is that the only "proper" method of firing a handgun is using two hands. However, professional use of one-handed firing is not unheard of, |
* A common misconception is that the only "proper" method of firing a handgun is using two hands. However, professional use of one-handed firing is not unheard of, more so in the past than now. In fact, it used to be how many militaries trained their men to shoot since it developed from the shooting styles used for the earliest military pistols, which were designed to be fired one-handed. |
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** A professional is also trained to hold a handgun in one hand when his other hand is holding something else, such as a flashlight. One of the more famous holds on mainstream media is the [http://www.iwillnotbeavictim.com/flashlight_hold-page.html Harries Hold]. |
** A professional is also trained to hold a handgun in one hand when his other hand is holding something else, such as a flashlight. One of the more famous holds on mainstream media is the [http://www.iwillnotbeavictim.com/flashlight_hold-page.html Harries Hold]. |
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* Almost all single-actions revolvers are made to be fired with one hand and become very awkward when using the modern two handed setup. It also doesn't help that if that second hand isn't placed properly, you can [[Fingore|lose fingers.]] |
* Almost all single-actions revolvers are made to be fired with one hand and become very awkward when using the modern two handed setup. It also doesn't help that if that second hand isn't placed properly, you can [[Fingore|lose fingers.]] |
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* Generally, almost any handgun (up to and including hand cannons like the Desert Eagle) can be accurately fired one handed with proper training and practice, the hard part is holding the gun steady with your arm extended and not so much the recoil, that's why you see people in westerns using their off arm to support their shooting arm. |
* Generally, almost any handgun (up to and including hand cannons like the Desert Eagle) can be accurately fired one handed with proper training and practice, the hard part is holding the gun steady with your arm extended and not so much the recoil, that's why you see people in westerns using their off arm to support their shooting arm. |
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* In ''[[El Cazador de la Bruja]]'', from essentially the same creative minds as ''[[Noir]]'' and ''[[Madlax]]'', L.A. wields an ''M249 machine gun'' one-handed towards the end of the series. The lead girl-with-gun Nadie, on the other hand, usually prefers to hold her M1911 with two hands, as she doesn't possess the [[The Gunslinger|mad gunslinging skillz]] of her spiritual predecessors. |
* In ''[[El Cazador de la Bruja]]'', from essentially the same creative minds as ''[[Noir]]'' and ''[[Madlax]]'', L.A. wields an ''M249 machine gun'' one-handed towards the end of the series. The lead girl-with-gun Nadie, on the other hand, usually prefers to hold her M1911 with two hands, as she doesn't possess the [[The Gunslinger|mad gunslinging skillz]] of her spiritual predecessors. |
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* In [[Hayate the Combat Butler]], the titular butler shows that he is perfectly capable of this by showing up to rescue Nagi early in the series from an enormous robot with a wrapped bundle on his back. He reveals this to be an HK- |
* In ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', the titular butler shows that he is perfectly capable of this by showing up to rescue Nagi early in the series from an enormous robot with a wrapped bundle on his back. He reveals this to be an HK-MG3, which is normally a ''turret-mounted machine gun'' and simply tears through the robot's armor. Hayate is also apparently strong enough to ''easily'' wield it with one hand. Mysteriously, he also claims to have already been very familiar with the weapon somehow and seemed to have access to it before/without Sanzen'in resources. |
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* In one of the later episodes of the first season of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' Motoko fires Saito's ''anti-tank rifle'' single handed. Admittedly she's a fully body cyborg (effectively a human brain in a robot body) and she only does it single handed because her other arm had been torn off, but still. Keep in mind the first time we see this rifle is when it's being bolted down before firing to keep Saito from being blown away by the recoil. |
* In one of the later episodes of the first season of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' Motoko fires Saito's ''anti-tank rifle'' single handed. Admittedly she's a fully body cyborg (effectively a human brain in a robot body) and she only does it single handed because her other arm had been torn off, but still. Keep in mind the first time we see this rifle is when it's being bolted down before firing to keep Saito from being blown away by the recoil. |
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** She is also really, '''really''' [[Unstoppable Rage|pissed]]. |
** She is also really, '''really''' [[Unstoppable Rage|pissed]]. |
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* Mami from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' has, amongst other things, wielded muskets one-handed and [[Guns Akimbo|dual-wielded rifles]]! |
* Mami from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' has, amongst other things, wielded muskets one-handed and [[Guns Akimbo|dual-wielded rifles]]! |
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== Fanfiction == |
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* Averted and probably played straight at the same time in ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]''. Averted with Shinji, even when one of your Eva's arm is busted, firing a giant hypervelocity rifle one-handed is not a good idea. Implied to be played straight with Asuka, since she mentions that you need to reinforce your arm with the AT-field for one-handed firing mention above. |
* Averted and probably played straight at the same time in ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]''. Averted with Shinji, even when one of your Eva's arm is busted, firing a giant hypervelocity rifle one-handed is not a good idea. Implied to be played straight with Asuka, since she mentions that you need to reinforce your arm with the AT-field for one-handed firing mention above. |
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* Near the end of ''Terminator 2'', Sarah is doing this with a shotgun. Then again, her other arm didn't seem to be in any shape to help. The T-800 used a shotgun one-handed while riding a motorcycle. |
* Near the end of ''Terminator 2'', Sarah is doing this with a shotgun. Then again, her other arm didn't seem to be in any shape to help. The T-800 used a shotgun one-handed while riding a motorcycle. |
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** In the first Terminator movie the T-800 uses both a shotgun and an assault rifle one handed. |
** In the first Terminator movie the T-800 uses both a shotgun and an assault rifle one handed. |
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* The most recent film version of ''[[The Last of the Mohicans|Last of the Mohicans]]'' features the most inexplicably skilled Hawkeye yet: two flintlock longarms, two shots, two kills (and with a friendly between his two targets to boot). |
* The most recent film version of ''[[The Last of the Mohicans|Last of the Mohicans]]'' features the most inexplicably skilled Hawkeye yet: two flintlock longarms, two shots, two kills (and with a friendly between his two targets to boot). |
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* In the Halo EU novel 'First Strike' the SPARTAN Linda achieves this with a sniper rifle, one hand, hanging upside down in the middle of a vertical descent, her other hand clutching the rope used for said descent. With perfect accuracy. Not even SPARTAN-ness can justify that level of crazy. |
* In the Halo EU novel 'First Strike' the SPARTAN Linda achieves this with a sniper rifle, one hand, hanging upside down in the middle of a vertical descent, her other hand clutching the rope used for said descent. With perfect accuracy. Not even SPARTAN-ness can justify that level of crazy. |
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* [[Tabletop Games]] ''Spycraft'' actually has a character option that lets you do this, albeit at a penalty to hit. |
* [[Tabletop Games]] ''Spycraft'' actually has a character option that lets you do this, albeit at a penalty to hit. |
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* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' |
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' |
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* ''[[Rifts]]'' has the Sharpshooter skill, which is only available to a select few classes (such as the Gunslinger). One of the trick shots available is the ability to fire a two-handed rifle in one hand. |
* ''[[Rifts]]'' has the Sharpshooter skill, which is only available to a select few classes (such as the Gunslinger). One of the trick shots available is the ability to fire a two-handed rifle in one hand. |
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* Dante from ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' fires a ''[[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]'' one-handed. Some of the more demonic firearms (Nightmare-Beta and Artemis) justify this by literally wrapping to his hand. |
* Dante from ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' fires a ''[[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]'' one-handed. Some of the more demonic firearms (Nightmare-Beta and Artemis) justify this by literally wrapping to his hand. |
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** The shotgun can also be justified by Dante having [[Super Strength|superhuman strength.]] |
** The shotgun can also be justified by Dante having [[Super Strength|superhuman strength.]] |
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* In ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]'', weapons that do not automatically take up both hand slots can be fired one-handed, but if the other hand is not empty, accuracy drops ([http://ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Accuracy_formula to 80% base]). Of course, accuracy is penalized for critical wounds on both arms if both are involved (by 10%, thus with more than 1 wounds to the off hand, may as well fire one-handed). The character models, however, will always show your characters firing them one-handed. |
* In ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]'', weapons that do not automatically take up both hand slots can be fired one-handed, but if the other hand is not empty, accuracy drops ([http://ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Accuracy_formula to 80% base]). Of course, accuracy is penalized for critical wounds on both arms if both are involved (by 10%, thus with more than 1 wounds to the off hand, may as well fire one-handed). The character models, however, will always show your characters firing them one-handed. |
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* In ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'', Sniper Wolf occasionally uses her rifle with just one hand. But that's a [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] for you... |
* In ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'', Sniper Wolf occasionally uses her rifle with just one hand. But that's a [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] for you... |
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* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Dr. McNinja doesn't usually use guns, but he apparently makes exceptions for a [[Zombie Apocalypse]], where he wields a ''shotgun'' [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=27&issue=8 in one hand] and his sword in the other. |
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Dr. McNinja doesn't usually use guns, but he apparently makes exceptions for a [[Zombie Apocalypse]], where he wields a ''shotgun'' [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=27&issue=8 in one hand] and his sword in the other. |
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== Truth In Television == |
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* In [[Real Life]], one of Eliot Ness' Untouchables, an American Indian ex football player, used a shotgun one handed. The Untouchables: the [[G.I. Joe]] of their time. |
* In [[Real Life]], one of Eliot Ness' Untouchables, an American Indian ex football player, used a shotgun one handed. The Untouchables: the [[G.I. Joe]] of their time. |
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** [[Freakier Than Fiction|...And they left this out of the film why?]] |
** [[Freakier Than Fiction|...And they left this out of the film why?]] |
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