New player to Valorant here - though I've played a lot of CS 1.6 back in the day, I kind of skipped CS Source and CS: GO, but seeing as Valorant looked so interesting, I decided to give it a shot.

By far my favorite weapon in CS was always the AK47, so I was very intrigued by the Vandal, which seemed to be a 1:1 of the AK within Valorant. However, the feel of the weapon, though similar, is also somewhat different, and I'm having a real hard time adjusting to the burst pattern with the Vandal.

Things work pretty well if I tap. Spraying seems to be a nightmare and totally not worth it with the Vandal, even at medium range (though it works pretty decently with the Phantom). However, bursts seem to be useful, but extremely inconsistent.

In this clip, for instance: I have bursted the enemy 3 times, to a total of 10 shots (a final shot went out as I died but I'm not counting that one):

https://reddit.com/link/k7b2qm/video/9oms8lxaee361/player

The 2nd burst (shots 5 and 6) was a complete mess, and I get why that missed entirely, but the 1st (shots 1 to 4) and 3rd (shots 7 to 10) bursts seem to have been fairly controlled, at least in CS AK47 terms. Both bursts seem to have aimed the enemy properly, and started with the crosshair completely closed. Both bursts combined add up to a total of 8 shots. The last shot (number 4) in the first burst clearly missed, but I don't understand how, out of the other 7 shots, only 2 landed.

This isn't a "I've done everything right and the game is broken" kind of post, since the shots missing clearly means I haven't done everything right, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what to adapt in this kind of situation. At least in CS, this is the kind of situation the AK excels at: Too far away to be swarmed down by SMGs, and close enough to take advantage of the fire rate. And yet, unless I go straight for the head to finish the enemy off on the 1st burst, I just can't seem to get the bursting down correctly.

Can anyone with more experience and knowledge in Vandal shooting help me out?