Alittle Help with Weapon Animating?

[THUGENSTEIN]

Hi. I am interested in reanimating all of the CS guns, reloads, shoots etc. I feel that the ones that they have now are good but too floaty. Some of the pistols, when you shoot them they are very wiggly and floppy, but in real life when held with 2 hands the pistol recoils back for a split second and the gun is held firmly and stable. Some of the reloads are too bouncy too. Anyway, I wanted to make firm and smooth animations and since everything I work at I excelt in very well (Flash MX, Hammer etc) I want to know what sorts of program can I use for re-animating the CS weapons? And are there any good tutorials online for this? I am downloading Maya right now but I'm not sure if that's the best program for this specific purpose. Maya is generally for all modelling but I'd want something more in the animation department. Plus Maya seems real complicated. Anyway, I've heard of XSI and 3dMax as well. Anyway, anyone help?