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338 cal 265grn wildcat bullet test
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<blockquote data-quote="James Jones" data-source="post: 162491" data-attributes="member: 8843"><p>Any projectile will be easier to stabilize with little or no twist if it has a higher front of center balance . A very good example of this is arrows , if you take a naked arrow shaft meaning no fletchings or point at all it will have a center or slightly rearward balance point due to the knock weight, when you shoot this arro it will leave the bow VERY irradic and will likely take a sharp turn very shortly after clearing the bow , now take the same arro and put a 200gr point and it will fly pretty strait for a long way , then you add some fletching to give it even a tiny bit of spin and it will fly strait as long as its in the air. Now granted that an arrows length to weight ration is WAY off from that of a bullet so your not compairing apples to apples.</p><p>BUT , if you could get a bullet say the same basic desgine as Richards aluminum tipped bullets but instead of the tip being aluminum make it Tungston and instead of the core being lead make it out of some sort of plastic , you would likely end up with a bullet that was alot longer than the current model if they were the same weight giving a higher BC but it would take less rate of twist to stabilize because the front of center balance point would be shifted greatly to the front.</p><p>SO , you end up with a bullet thats weight is in the front basicaly pulling the projectile because the rear is wider and lighter causeing more drag and in the basic line of thought it should never begin to tumble because of the fron weight "pulling" effect</p><p> </p><p>I think this was along the lines of Lost River Ballistics thinking when they desgined their bullets.</p><p> </p><p>did any of that make any since to anybody casue after reading back over it it diden't make as much since to me as it did when i was typing</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jones, post: 162491, member: 8843"] Any projectile will be easier to stabilize with little or no twist if it has a higher front of center balance . A very good example of this is arrows , if you take a naked arrow shaft meaning no fletchings or point at all it will have a center or slightly rearward balance point due to the knock weight, when you shoot this arro it will leave the bow VERY irradic and will likely take a sharp turn very shortly after clearing the bow , now take the same arro and put a 200gr point and it will fly pretty strait for a long way , then you add some fletching to give it even a tiny bit of spin and it will fly strait as long as its in the air. Now granted that an arrows length to weight ration is WAY off from that of a bullet so your not compairing apples to apples. BUT , if you could get a bullet say the same basic desgine as Richards aluminum tipped bullets but instead of the tip being aluminum make it Tungston and instead of the core being lead make it out of some sort of plastic , you would likely end up with a bullet that was alot longer than the current model if they were the same weight giving a higher BC but it would take less rate of twist to stabilize because the front of center balance point would be shifted greatly to the front. SO , you end up with a bullet thats weight is in the front basicaly pulling the projectile because the rear is wider and lighter causeing more drag and in the basic line of thought it should never begin to tumble because of the fron weight "pulling" effect I think this was along the lines of Lost River Ballistics thinking when they desgined their bullets. did any of that make any since to anybody casue after reading back over it it diden't make as much since to me as it did when i was typing [/QUOTE]
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