Franchi:
While I have had no issues with the generals with whom I have served, having found them to a man to be bright, honorable and conscientious, MG Hatcher's rank is completely irrelevant. He was a competent ballistician and engineer. I think Miller said it pretty succinctly , but there is an even better reason - the basic laws of physics require it to be so.
We have discussed this at length recently on the thread about calculating recoil on a 16g.
A gun recoils according to Newtons laws of motion. "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction".
This expressed by the equation M1V1 = M2V2.
Your expert who said "no movement" has forgotten, or perhaps never learned, simple physics, and his whole statement can be carted off and used to encourage the cultivation of roses.
As for Winchester's pictures - the info did NOT come from their engineering department. It likely came from their marketing department.
Regards
GKT
Texas Declaration of Independence 1836 -The Indictment against the dictatorship, Para.16:"It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments."
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