Re: Recoil off bipod
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Salmonaxe</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If torque imparted on a rifle by a bullet was so dramatic as to cause any noticeably effect on the rifles position, wouldn't benchrest shooter's rifles be falling off their rests each time they took a shot? <span style="font-weight: bold">And wouldn't they be making crazy fore-ends that curved the opposite direction in order to counter that effect?</span>
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They do for .30 cal and up BR rifles:
http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/200...-caliber-rifles
What we need to realize is that there are all sorts of minutia that can be exprapolated and interpolated as affecting our shooting, and they all do to one extent or another.
A little bullet is spinning hunreds of thousands of RPM's in a space of time measured in milliseconds. Does this impart a physical force on a 15lb rifle? Yes, but not as much as the 55,000psi of expanding gas behind said bullet being popped off in a steel tube
with one exit point.
For practical precision shooting, such as competition, military and LE there are things that weigh more than others on the intended result.
For example: I can't shoot groups at 100yards for the life of me, but I can shoot sub moa groups at 500yds under competition conditions in the wind when the target is only raised for 6 seconds per shot, or put 3 shots in under 45 seconds under a third of a minute at 500 and then again at 600 yards.
Is this the result of knowing what exactly makes my bipod move off target (usually left) when I don't drive the rifle right? No! Its because when I don't think of every little thing and factor and consideration, and I just do my job and do the basics right behind and on the rifle good things happen.
I think you get frustrated Frank, because you train for the end result in a manner that is proven to work day in and day out, and then the peanut gallery sits at home and argues all sorts of little bullshit that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.. You get results and help others to do so as well with methods that are not theoretical, but field proven.
I understand the physics of the little stuff that goes on, but that never helped my shooting nearly as much as learning to get behind my rifle, properly load my bipod, check my NPA, breathe out, pause, squeeze trigger correctly, and follow through.
There's a reason my signature line says what it does.