Originally Posted By: Stan
Originally Posted By: 2-piper
Pressure does not enter into the formula for calculating recoil at all, only motion & wt.


I agree with all of your statements concerning recoil and pressure and their effects on the gun, Miller. And, as far as "calculating recoil" goes, with the above statement, too. Calculations, however accurate, do not totally agree with what I perceive the recoil to feel like.


Stan the problem with quantifying perceived recoil is that it depends upon very subjective evaluation on the part of the individual experiencing the recoil event. As you know no two human nervous systems are exactly alike so what may be perceived by a strapping young fellow as mild recoil may be perceived by an old duffer such as myself as a sever recoil event but after taking a couple Alievs I might find the same recoil impulse to be only moderate.

Last edited by TwiceBarrel; 08/07/09 12:17 AM.