Jim,
I know that you know a lot about this stuff.
I understand that it cannot be calculated, however why can't aat least some of those things be measured?
Modern pressure sensing technology has come a long way. I imagine that it will not be long before smart, pressure sensing, fabrics will allow us to measure the force right at our shoulder.
(I heard of a person, recently, experimenting with pressure sensors in gloves to measure handgun recoil force...)
But in the mean time we have all the technology we need to determine what impact such things as forcing cones, back-boring, etc may or may not have on peak force. Of course there is still the human element of determining how differences in force are perceived, but we can at least measure the change (or lack?) in recoil force with these technologies. No? Problem is that mostly it is the companies making the products who also own the measuring technology.
So when a company like Benelli talks about their recoil measuring technology, they are not making up the fact that they own some pressure sensors and a computer.
Graphs such as these
They are not "making the data up." They have actual measurements. Of course we can safely assume that they are not reporting all of their data...
http://www.benelliusa.com/firearms/comforTech.tpl I'm hoping that in his retirement Don Amos will be able to have some data we can trust.
