I was playing a few days ago and I was having absolutely no luck. I tried gun after gun but I continued going negative. I switched tactics to no avail. The main problem was that when I shot the gun, the recoil was terrible, even at close ranges. Burst firing was useless since most of the time the enemy had 7, 8 bullets in me already. I got fed up and played around with my classes. One important piece of info - all those times I experienced the recoil issue I had a sight on. Later, I accidentally left out the sight attachment. Immediately my recoil problem was solved. Even with the AK, I was capable of long range shots without much recoil issues. So the thing is, a precision sight INCREASES recoil! Don't use them anymore. Try using iron sights and I can guarantee that by 1 or 2 games you'll have noticed the difference, if not immediately. The effect was so good that I broke my own record. In a game in Nuketown with my AK47 I finished with a 52/2 final k/d count. I had gotten Attack Dogs 2 times in one game. 3 Chopper Gunners and 3 Blackbirds. I never had such a high k/d count, not even in Modern Warfare 2. Of course, that was only one time, but still there was a noticeably huge difference. Now I'm finally able to bring back my 3.0 + k/d ratio!! See for yourselves. Please give me and everyone else your own feedback and experiences with "going iron."