laws of Physics question???

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PTucker

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I’ve been sitting back reading most of this tuner stuff, and about stopping the muzzle, and I have a question???

In a previous tread Bill Calfee himself said that you can’t change the laws of physics.

I completely agree with that statement. But it leads me to wonder???

If you stop a muzzle that would imply that it’s pointing in the same place and doesn’t move. Do I have that right??? Or dose Bill mean something different by stopping a muzzle??

If you shoot two bullets out of a stopped muzzle,( that is pointing in the same place), and these bullets are traveling at different velocities, the laws of physics say that the slower bullet will impact the target lower than the faster bullet. It’s just a gravity thing.

According to the laws of physics, the only way possible for two bullets, traveling at different velocities, to impact a target in the same place is for the muzzle to be pointing in different directions for each of these shots. Other than that you have to defy the laws of physics. You simply must point the muzzle higher for the slower shot to impact in the same place as the faster shot.

If that’s right then the muzzle has to be moving to make both a slow and a fast bullet go thru the same hole.

Or am I missing something here???

Thanks for any light you can shed.

P. Tucker
 
You're missing the main point. What makes the tuners function is magic. Once you accept that you can go on to use them with great effect. :D

I also feel the same way about electricity.
 
Like Mr. PTucker I've also been a lurker on this whole tuner thread, and the same question has been bouncing around in my head. No matter how a tuner is built it can't defy the laws of gravity after the bullet has left the muzzle.

I've read many times about a truly "stopped" muzzle. It's the imaginary one that's used to develop the bullet drop tables that used to be printed in back of all the load databooks.

If your tuner truly locks the muzzle down so it isn't moving, then each bullet should print vertically according to the launch velocity. If you can achieve a low ES at different velocities then you should be able to generate your own drop chart. Maybe the trick is to set the tuner to print a perfect drop chart?

If it lands the bullets at different velocities into the same hole, then it is not stopping the muzzle but putting in a fixed variance according to velocity. Whether or not every velocity happens to magically impart the correct variance is the question. I also think this variance is good only for yardage distance

Steve
 
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