As to the effects of nodes, harmonics, recoil etcetera, on accuracy, over the years, a few of us here have invoked the hypothetical rifled cube of steel as a thought platform for envisioning the advancement of certain propositions about the physics involved in precision shooting.
I don’t want to repeat an experiment that is already documented, but I have the space, curiosity and materials to sacrifice a barrel by casting it in hundreds of pounds of concrete such that it will be relatively immovable, in the name of science, shall we say.
The thinking here is that the muzzle and tenon would protrude from a casting of rebar-reinforced concrete (wheeled) “sleeved” so thick and heavy (maybe 1,000+ pounds) that harmonics and possibly measurable recoil are completely defeated, to see what affect this has on group size and all facets of load development. This is as close as I’d be willing to try to get to the rifled cube, and my thought is that in the absence of wind all there can and will be is purely vertical stringing, save for increased or decreased spin drift if slightly dependent on velocity.
Questions I have:
Is this already a known outcome from a similar experiment having been done?
Is this mechanically unsafe as a proposition, or afoul of any legalities I have not thought of?
What is the best way to construct such a unitized sleeve such that the barrel never becomes loose?
The first rule in concrete work is that - it cracks, so naturally, how do we stop that?
If the barrel truly mimics a snake swallowing an egg when fired, how much reinforced concrete is needed to either suppress that tendency down to nothing, or be sizable enough so as to absorb that tendency for a 1.25” without ill effect? (We know that a gear train set in concrete and running for decades hasn’t cracked a certain block).
What else should be a consideration? A .284 was the thought here.
I don’t want to repeat an experiment that is already documented, but I have the space, curiosity and materials to sacrifice a barrel by casting it in hundreds of pounds of concrete such that it will be relatively immovable, in the name of science, shall we say.
The thinking here is that the muzzle and tenon would protrude from a casting of rebar-reinforced concrete (wheeled) “sleeved” so thick and heavy (maybe 1,000+ pounds) that harmonics and possibly measurable recoil are completely defeated, to see what affect this has on group size and all facets of load development. This is as close as I’d be willing to try to get to the rifled cube, and my thought is that in the absence of wind all there can and will be is purely vertical stringing, save for increased or decreased spin drift if slightly dependent on velocity.
Questions I have:
Is this already a known outcome from a similar experiment having been done?
Is this mechanically unsafe as a proposition, or afoul of any legalities I have not thought of?
What is the best way to construct such a unitized sleeve such that the barrel never becomes loose?
The first rule in concrete work is that - it cracks, so naturally, how do we stop that?
If the barrel truly mimics a snake swallowing an egg when fired, how much reinforced concrete is needed to either suppress that tendency down to nothing, or be sizable enough so as to absorb that tendency for a 1.25” without ill effect? (We know that a gear train set in concrete and running for decades hasn’t cracked a certain block).
What else should be a consideration? A .284 was the thought here.
