I experienced a weird moment when my soldiers were fighting a group of scythers. My shooting level 20, bionic eye, recon armor wearing, charge machinegunner with the bipod set up was struggling to hit many of the scythers. Usually he would hit the first 1-3 shots in a burst and then the rest go high.

My 2 AKMS soldiers, with level 15 and 16 shooting and no bionic assistance were nailing shot after shot. They rarely missed. Theres got to be something im not seeing on their stats page because from everything im seeing the charge lmg should be much more accurate here. They were all fighting in the day at roughly the same ranges and against the same targets. The lmg has a bit more sway but otherwise much better stats, and its on a much better combat pawn, so why was it performing worse than these aks? was this a weird rng moment or is there something im not seeing. The machine gunner was probably using suppressing fire but the aks were using snapshots so i think their accuracy debuffs from those would be similar.