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How fast did weapons and ammo technology really advance and when did it happen?
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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1863862" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>Bisley match top scores from 1871-2019. Scores are the top shooter scores from the top scoring teams from each year.</p><p></p><p>Look what happens in 1919. People haven't been back from the war for a whole year and there was just a global flu pandemic that killed MILLIONS. At the same time as all that was going on, people were doing what people do: inventing.</p><p></p><p>Analysis:</p><p>After WW1 the big changes arrived on the market including a revolution in metallurgy, new chemistry leading to improved propellants and hugely more precise manufacturing techniques which relied less on humans and more on machines to get it right. After 1920 there's a long period of people learning how to use these new tools and to improve them even further. After 1960, there are only decimal points to refine. To this day there's not been a 100% clean score by a whole team but it'll happen in the next 10 years as computerization of manufacture and improved measuring resolution imprint their mark on technology.</p><p></p><p>This is why in 1900 talking about accurate predictable firing of rifles at small targets beyond naked eye range was discussed on the same level as magic. After WW1 it started to look like it wasn't just possible but things like sniping took on a menacing new level of power because it had come to pass. By the 1960's it was no longer silly to think of long range + small target precision engagement with rifles... heck, it was being done every day in Viet Nam. It was a little bit silly still for a couple more decades for the average Joe to think they might be able to do it. Not because it was impossible and not because it was so improbable as to be totally ludicrous but because it was really hard to do and normally really expensive to get there.</p><p></p><p>By the 1990's manufacturing technologies started seeing computerization infecting every facet of how things are made at large output scales and even at small scales with newer CNC machines that a small business could manage to get hold of and full computerization of processes in larger operations. After 2010 even newer computational technologies yet like AI, big data, on-demand scaling of computational clusters, machine learning and new electronic sensor technologies that are more and more precise enable more and more consistency while dropping the costs to what the common man can afford. Nowadays any yokel with about 600 bucks on them can put together a rifle that can reasonably be expected to hit a target of a size and distance that's not really visible to the naked eye.</p><p></p><p>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]184122[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Now let's everyone put on our thinking caps and see if we can identify and then quantify other technological revolutions that have happened in the last 150 years and see if there is possibly an underlying relationship which might not otherwise be obvious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1863862, member: 96226"] Bisley match top scores from 1871-2019. Scores are the top shooter scores from the top scoring teams from each year. Look what happens in 1919. People haven't been back from the war for a whole year and there was just a global flu pandemic that killed MILLIONS. At the same time as all that was going on, people were doing what people do: inventing. Analysis: After WW1 the big changes arrived on the market including a revolution in metallurgy, new chemistry leading to improved propellants and hugely more precise manufacturing techniques which relied less on humans and more on machines to get it right. After 1920 there's a long period of people learning how to use these new tools and to improve them even further. After 1960, there are only decimal points to refine. To this day there's not been a 100% clean score by a whole team but it'll happen in the next 10 years as computerization of manufacture and improved measuring resolution imprint their mark on technology. This is why in 1900 talking about accurate predictable firing of rifles at small targets beyond naked eye range was discussed on the same level as magic. After WW1 it started to look like it wasn't just possible but things like sniping took on a menacing new level of power because it had come to pass. By the 1960's it was no longer silly to think of long range + small target precision engagement with rifles... heck, it was being done every day in Viet Nam. It was a little bit silly still for a couple more decades for the average Joe to think they might be able to do it. Not because it was impossible and not because it was so improbable as to be totally ludicrous but because it was really hard to do and normally really expensive to get there. By the 1990's manufacturing technologies started seeing computerization infecting every facet of how things are made at large output scales and even at small scales with newer CNC machines that a small business could manage to get hold of and full computerization of processes in larger operations. After 2010 even newer computational technologies yet like AI, big data, on-demand scaling of computational clusters, machine learning and new electronic sensor technologies that are more and more precise enable more and more consistency while dropping the costs to what the common man can afford. Nowadays any yokel with about 600 bucks on them can put together a rifle that can reasonably be expected to hit a target of a size and distance that's not really visible to the naked eye. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. [ATTACH type="full" width="869px"]184122[/ATTACH] Now let's everyone put on our thinking caps and see if we can identify and then quantify other technological revolutions that have happened in the last 150 years and see if there is possibly an underlying relationship which might not otherwise be obvious. [/QUOTE]
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