Letters
Recoil & Lumps
With reference to your March 2019 edition, I would like to comment on two points.
Firstly, in the letter by Alwin Fleischmann regarding recoil calculations, all the calculations are correct as presented, with the exception of the metre/ sec to feet/sec conversion factor, but I would like to add something to that, also based on the laws of motion and energy.
Not many shooters realise just how small the rearward movement of a firearm is before the bullet leaves the muzzle. As shown by Mr Fleischmann, the velocity of the bullet/ejecta combination relative to the rifle velocity in the
