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Old 12-20-2016, 12:38 AM
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Originally Posted by zeke View Post
Can I ask what unit of measurement the 3.92, 4.60 and 5.73 are? Have found recoil seems to correspond very closely to muzzle energy, in same pistol.
The mass of the gun and bullet lbs or Kg, the recoil force in lbs or Newtons, recoil velocity in feet/sec or m/sec, the recoil energy in ft/lbs or Joules all figure in to the recoil equation which is a direct result of the mass and velocity of the bullet leaving the muzzle, which results in muzzle energy from which the recoil (in ft/lbs force) is figured through the recoil equation. In not so many words, it's all tied together.
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