hoz53
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and dont forget to report to us what happens when a bullet hits/get hits by a rain drop Bill. i have been wondering about thatVery true!!! But, if we use all the tools available at the beginning of load development, the shooter can spend less time in fine tuning for down range where environmental forces have a greater impact!!! Here is the deal, I understand frequency, wave form, harmonics (constructive and destructive), and nodes and their associated mathematics!!! I also understand the forces in rotation dynamics, thermodynamics (study of heat which is the bases for internal ballistic), physical chemistry (solid fuel to plasma gas combustion reaction inside the case), mechanics (Newtonian physics), fluid mechanics (air is a fluid of lower density), and a reloader, shooter for 50 years!!! I wanted to be a ballistician but the military was downsizing and centralizing all the testing grounds and labs in the early 70s!!! There were more professionals in that field than jobs!! I choose engineering instead!!!
Since I'm retired, I'm going to do the research I never got to do!!! I'm going to make do with the tools I have and knowledge is the key!!! I have several hypothesis that need testing and data collection, statistics, and probability analysis in order to make a case for theories!!! I'm going to start getting an understanding of bullet stability passing through the hot, high density, and high pressure strata cloud, in front of and around the muzzle, of gases caused by 1) compressed air shoved out of the barrel in front of the bullet like a piston 2) hot and high speed bypass gases in the barrel/bullet boundary mixing and adding to the compressed cloud 3) the faster than the bullet hot plasma ejection mixing with the cloud!! My hypothesis is a balanced bullet (center of mass located close to the middle of the bullet) should stabilize (minimize torque induced tipping or upsetting) better than an offset bullet (center of mass located more towards the tip or base)!! Basically, Im looking at the torque differences from the center of mass and deltas (differences) of frontal areas causing drag and the harmonics!! It could also achieve stability faster in it's flight in a normal environment and may hit down range faster!!! If the hypothesis is correct, it could minimize down range tuning!!! If the bullet can stabilize faster in that cloud, it could also dampen or buffer harmonics caused by radial forces and/or converging mach cones (high and low pressure fluxes) in the much lower density environment (surroundings in thermodynamics)!!!
With the new LRLX, I could use the older LR in tandem with the new LX and collect twice as much data and have a better confirmation of valid data!!! This would dramatically aid in deriving the theory!!!