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    Ballistic coefficient G1 and G7

    Re: Ballistic coefficient G1 and G7 Bryan, I agree to use the curve that fits best, but just looking at the nice outlines of the standard bullets is a bit misleading... I think you also have to take into account the diameter of the test bullet that originated the drag model. The "american"...
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    Gun Digest "15 State-of-the-Art Sniper Rifles"

    Re: Gun Digest "15 State-of-the-Art Sniper Rifles" Typical magazine article, pure bla, blaahh...
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    Range Report Bowling Ball vs a Marble

    Re: Bowling Ball vs a Marble <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: The Mechanic</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sectional density and aerodynamics (drag). If the sectional density is the same and they are both spherical objects their terminal velocity...
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    Rifle Scopes h58 vs mil dot

    Re: h58 vs mil dot I know how to use them... just don't like them for the reasons above. When I heard that the military were buying some horus equiped scopes, I thought WTF??? Perhaps there is something for everyone.
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    Rifle Scopes h58 vs mil dot

    Re: h58 vs mil dot To each his own... I don't like Horus reticles, too thin, busy and difficult to use in low light. What it gains in speed more than loses in complexity and confusion. Much prefer reticles with fewer, thicker, bolder lines. And even the old dots are easy to see in low light.
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    Remington 5R barrel question?

    Re: Remington 5R barrel question? Check this: http://www.snipershide.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=3168739&page=1
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    Advanced Marksmanship Analyze This

    Re: Analyze This The comments by LL and CoryT are spot on, what more can I say... what a waste of time (again) trying to save something useful from SS posts. I won't repeat the mistake.
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    Range Report Hydrostatic Shock Information

    Re: Hydrostatic Shock Information The human body is about 70% water but living tissue is not a fluid and has not the same properties, quite different... go shoot a big piece of meat and ssome water jug of the same weght, vastly different results.
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    Range Report Hydrostatic Shock Information

    Re: Hydrostatic Shock Information <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Augustus</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was trying to recover a 375 Chey-tac bullet undamaged so I filled a 30 gal plastic drum full of water. There was no top on the drum, I had a...
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    Range Report "Soft" bullets for steel target life

    Re: "Soft" bullets for steel target life +1000 on what KYpatrior just said. I have experience shooting all kind of bullets, including all lead, non jacketed bullets at steel targets of different hardness levels, and it is mostly the velocity (for steel think about impact energy/full bore...
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    Range Report BC/Performance Question: 155 Sc. Vs. 175 SMK?

    Re: BC/Performance Question: 155 Sc. Vs. 175 SMK? squarenut, the form factor concept is as old as BCs... The thing is, BOTH bullet shape and mass are important to retain velocity, and both are taken into account in the BC. The Higher BC bullet retains velocity better by definition. The...
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    Rifle Scopes Origin of dots in mil dots

    Re: Origin of dots in mil dots The concept is hardly new. In topography most of the good optical levels and theodolites made in the last 60+ years have true miliradian based reticles to estimate distance. And most of them use etched glass since you don't have the constrains of a wire reticle...
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    5000 meters+ Supersonic (*Updated with pics*)

    Re: 5000 meters+ Supersonic <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: saojao</div><div class="ubbcode-body">XLR for the chassis. We are working on incorporating a nitro piston into the chassis design. </div></div> When looking at the McMillan stock with...
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    Remington 5R MilSpec twist

    Re: Remington 5R MilSpec twist I also contacted them via email a week ago on M24 vs 5R milspec rifling specs, and the answer came today: "<span style="font-weight: bold">The barrels are designed and manufactured the same</span>. We use ordinance grade steel in all of our barrels.<span...
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    5000 meters+ Supersonic (*Updated with pics*)

    Re: 5000 meters+ Supersonic saojao, what kind of recoil reducer are you going to use on the stock? What kind of stock?
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    Remington 5R MilSpec twist

    Re: Remington 5R MilSpec twist Thanks for clearing this up for all of us From another engineer sometimes obseseed with minutia, I think your explanation on slipagge makes sense.
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    Rifle Scopes Origin of dots in mil dots

    Re: Origin of dots in mil dots <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 00bullitt</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">It very much had to do with the way they were made.</span> All reticles used to be of wire. The dots were balls...
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    Range Report Hydrostatic Shock Information

    Re: Hydrostatic Shock Information There is little doubt about hidraulic shock inside a skull or an inelastic organ filled with blood. But I guessed the OP was asking about the old hidrostatic shock theory where a body shot allegedly KO the animal due to a pressure spike trasmited via...
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    Range Report Hydrostatic Shock Information

    Re: Hydrostatic Shock Information P.O. Ackley wrote that book in the mid '50s, then updated it (that's where Vol I and II came) in the early '60s. That's more than 50 years ago... just saying
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    Range Report Hydrostatic Shock Information

    Re: Hydrostatic Shock Information I think that "hydrostatic shock" is a term no longer used in the scientific world, since there is no proof it ever existed to beging with. The wounding mechanism more related to velocity and energy is "temporaty cavity", it is understood, can be measured...
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