Originally Posted By: revdocdrew
So if the ejecta slams into a retained wad just past the forcing cone, there will be no increase in the recoil before the barrel blows, compared to the ejecta exiting the barrel without obstruction? Took some physics once, and it was never very simple to me.


You're talking about blowing up a barrel because of a stuck wad?
I've never had the pleasure. However, the answer to your hypothetical would be there would be little or no recoil because the ejecta never achieved any velocity, to speak of. You might need some clean shorts but not because of recoil.
You can have many times the allowable pressure and blow the gun to smithereens, while having no recoil at all. No ejecta velocity = no recoil. Further proof that pressure has nothing to do with recoil.

Last edited by Jim Legg; 09/03/08 07:38 PM.
> Jim Legg <