Animation won't play EVERY time it is called

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1

I got a running game with the player running automatically and the only inputs for controls is shooting and jumping, they both work. The animation for shooting does work when I want it to, SOMETIMES. I don’t know why, but it will occasionally not play the shooting animation when it’s supposed to, sometimes it does that several times in a row and then will work again.

Here is the code that calls the animation for shooting

void zombieShoot()
	{
		if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
			{
				Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
				RaycastHit hit;
				
				if(Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit))
				{
					if(hit.transform.tag == "zombieObstacle")
					{
						
						dude.animation.Play("shoot");
						gunFlash.Play();
						audio.clip = gunShots[Random.Range(0,2)];
						audio.Play();
						
						
					}
				}
			}
	}
2

Somewhere in your script, do you have something like gunTimer --?