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Recoil, what recoil?
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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1605139" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>No. That's the opposite of how it works unless the ability of said person to hold their shape goes is reduced with their mass. </p><p></p><p>Look at high speed film of recoil and you see there's 2 things going on there. The first event is the rifle breaking inertia and coming back to whip the firer's butt (or shoulder and cheek). That butt whippin is equally delivered to all regardless of body size becuase it happens stupid fast. We all get punched by the same boxer and we all fail to block it.</p><p></p><p>The second event is the firer having their inertia and muscular tension (and occasionally their nose) broken and they gain motion at a rate proportionate to the product of their mass and the amount of butt kicking (momentum) being delivered. Small guys move more because they've already got their butt kicked but there was only so much butt to absorb the kicking and so now they're just dealing with the rest of the energy the only way physics allows without them catching fire. By picking up velocity.</p><p></p><p>Big guys don't move as fast or as far as a result of a particular amount of recoil as a smaller guy so Bigge's head and other body parts aren't accelerated as violently. Thus it would stand to reason that they would perceive the recoil as being less violent than a twig built guy who just got speedily accelerated onto his bootie.</p><p></p><p>It's the same as punching a big guy or punching a small guy. Little guys feel it more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1605139, member: 96226"] No. That's the opposite of how it works unless the ability of said person to hold their shape goes is reduced with their mass. Look at high speed film of recoil and you see there's 2 things going on there. The first event is the rifle breaking inertia and coming back to whip the firer's butt (or shoulder and cheek). That butt whippin is equally delivered to all regardless of body size becuase it happens stupid fast. We all get punched by the same boxer and we all fail to block it. The second event is the firer having their inertia and muscular tension (and occasionally their nose) broken and they gain motion at a rate proportionate to the product of their mass and the amount of butt kicking (momentum) being delivered. Small guys move more because they've already got their butt kicked but there was only so much butt to absorb the kicking and so now they're just dealing with the rest of the energy the only way physics allows without them catching fire. By picking up velocity. Big guys don't move as fast or as far as a result of a particular amount of recoil as a smaller guy so Bigge's head and other body parts aren't accelerated as violently. Thus it would stand to reason that they would perceive the recoil as being less violent than a twig built guy who just got speedily accelerated onto his bootie. It's the same as punching a big guy or punching a small guy. Little guys feel it more. [/QUOTE]
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