You won't be able to rake up too many kills on 2 clips of ammo which is all you get when you pick up a dead guy's weapon.
Also when I see a muzzle flash and there's no big star (or cross) above the flash, I blast away. I killed a couple of enemies on the snowy forest map this way.
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