Why can't I get kills in the Crucible?

The lag is so bad for some players. I have had several issues where the person died several seconds after I shot them. No one else around. Give em the old double tap shogun/melee direct hit both times. They have full health when I die completely confused only to watch them die from the impact after the fact. Best I can do sometimes is tie. Ranged combat is impossible when the lag is that bad, like shooting at shadows as they disappear and randomly reappear on my screen then dead. Yay! I do ok when the lag is not living in sucksville but the server lag is a game breaker in PVP. You can tell when they sync players as well cause they do that same thing that happens when you enter an instance (darkness zone) where they disappear then reappear. Its like you are in Pacific Standard time and they are on East coast time then when you shoot them or get close to them the game syncs up and you both end up in Mountain time. Hard to explain but you can literally see the system try to reconcile the lag. Poorly. A lot of players are having similar issues its a poor musician that blames his instrument but in this case its like trying to play guitar on a two by four.

Because your playing the right way

that auto rifle looks decent. When I first stared playing crucible I used a similar one, shadow price, and it worked out well. Get on the headset with a few other guys. Ive never had a negative K/D ratio if there were a few of us in there communicating.