I'm reviving a "dead" post to confirm that the BR is indeed 5 shots.
After being killed several times by DMR users I was wondering what the hell I was doing wrong since I couldn't impact the 4 shot kill. Then I came across this forum and tried it out myself at forge.
This is bad. I'm switching to the DMR from now on. I liked the BR because it made you better at aiming. But "leveling" it up to the DMR has made it useless.
Why would I want a weapon which has SHORTER range and is SLOWER?
Is there a way that 343i can "fix" this on a future update?