indeed it has recoil but nearly enough. The automatics in the game should have a larger recoil considering the damage hipfire can do, so when someone hip fires there should be larger dispersion but aiming down the sights should have larger recoil. So when ASCR and most semi automatics has some sense of recoil, it clearly is not enough considering you can skill into the sharpshooter skill to help stabilize this core mechanic. So the sense of recoil you feel for the weapon is probably going to be less if you actually spend skill points into sharpshooter but I run ASCR without this skill and feel recoil is not nearly enough sense I don't dedicate to it. you get my drift?