Range & Accuracy

[Micah]

What I've always thought with barrels is that with some longer barrels on higher pressure 'guns the ball reaches its highest point of acceleration and then begins to slow down before the ball has left the barrel. So it's leaving the barrel at 300fps but it's already began to slow down before the it's even left the barrel. But a lower pressure (ie newer angels or cockers or matrices or shockers or what ever) accelerat the ball up to it's top spped slower so the ball has just come up to 300 fps as it leaves the barrel. So both balls will leave the barrel at the same velocity but they will be at different points on their own particualr energy curves. The ball that was slowed down before it left the barrel will loose it's energy more quickly than the one that peaked as it got to the end of the barrel.

Is my logic flawed?

-Micah

 

[manike]

Originally posted by Micah
Is my logic flawed?

Very.

It's irrelevant wether it was accelerating or decelerating before being measured. As long as it is measured as the same value they are both then under the same decelleration forces for the rest of their flight and will decelerate at the same rate = same trajectory etc.

manike

 

[Micah]

I dont want to sound like a dick or anything but can you back that up? I'd like to learn the phisics behind that.

-Micah

 

[alt01]

I know AGD has done a ton of testing on this type of stuff, they probably have hard proof (formulas, etc) somewhere around automags.org

 

[Andretti]

good article.

 

[SPARKLIE CHICK]

This is very true I spent a very informative afterenoon with jon of AGD and he explain some of the tests to me well worth trying to get your head round.

For the momnet I shall stick with my kinly borrowed cocker nothing like the sound of a cocker in action.

I did spend a lovley day snap shooting at nail heads with her If only I can keep it up on the feild

I did try an impulse sunday and was suprised just how much futher it was shooing not just hitting the other back coke on the cross happily skimming passed and off into the woods (it'a big feild set for 7 man)

Acuracy well I was having way too much fun at the time but under controled testing well I shall keep my eyes open um time to get the hamer out were's those nails ?


sparklie

 

[Davo]

Paul C

Hey Paul, perhaps we could sort something out I have an Eclipse Cocker for sale and could let you have it for a song ..................



Only joking, I think I'm going to like this one, well maybe!!!!!!!

 

[Collier]

Paul C

Originally posted by Davo
Hey Paul, perhaps we could sort something out I have an Eclipse Cocker for sale and could let you have it for a song ..................



Only joking, I think I'm going to like this one, well maybe!!!!!!!

A song eh?? apparently I do a good rendition of kum by ya (sp?)



Paul.