Talk:Free recoil

This article seems to do a decent job of describing recoil but doesn't address the most common usage of "free recoil" at all. Free recoil is a rested shooting style where the rifle isn't held rigidly into the shoulder and the recoil is allowed to drive the rifle straight back. This removes grouping error from position shifts when benchmarking a rifle. Also, suggesting that "felt recoil" is a subjective rather than an objective measurement is incorrect. Felt recoil is simply a point of measurement: specifically it's the recoil as measured where the shoulder contacts the butt pad and is the net recoil, inclusive of all recoil reductions. It's nothing at all like one's perception of temperature vs the actual temperature.

Equations not the same
The two equations don't equate the same. Some physics person might have to look at it and explain which is correct (if either are correct) and make corrections. My suspicion is the long form is correct, but the short form is different. I can't understand how the short form is derived. Sd4f (talk) 03:07, 10 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I solved the error and fixed it, no problem anymore.Sd4f (talk) 05:07, 10 February 2011 (UTC)