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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1519977" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Sorry MR, that's just factually false. The "equal and opposite" reaction begins the split second the powder is touched off.</p><p></p><p>I saw an interesting demonstration years ago where they suspended a rifle by wires and fired it electronically comparing true recoil forces between braked and unbraked rifles. It was shot in slow motion with extremely high speed cameras and provided very good demonstration of the principle.</p><p></p><p>This is how it was determined experimentally that roughly 70% of recoil is due to the "rocket motor effect" with the remainder being simply due to the shifting mass. It's also the reason things like spring loaded recoil buffers and mercury recoil reducers actually work.</p><p></p><p>If any of you really wanted to prove this for yourselves you could compare velocities for equal loads using something like a lead sled vs a rifle allowed to free recoil on a slide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1519977, member: 30902"] Sorry MR, that's just factually false. The "equal and opposite" reaction begins the split second the powder is touched off. I saw an interesting demonstration years ago where they suspended a rifle by wires and fired it electronically comparing true recoil forces between braked and unbraked rifles. It was shot in slow motion with extremely high speed cameras and provided very good demonstration of the principle. This is how it was determined experimentally that roughly 70% of recoil is due to the "rocket motor effect" with the remainder being simply due to the shifting mass. It's also the reason things like spring loaded recoil buffers and mercury recoil reducers actually work. If any of you really wanted to prove this for yourselves you could compare velocities for equal loads using something like a lead sled vs a rifle allowed to free recoil on a slide. [/QUOTE]
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