Can't believe you clicked on this thread. Weirdo.
Anyway was sitting here drinking and thinking, and nothing good ever comes from that. So, buckle up, it could be fun.
As I recall, jbm and the like will build you an estimate of what yardage (or kilo pascals for our Canadian friends) a given round will give up the good fight and fail to outrun sound.
Now, it's well established folklore, which I believe myself, that straddling such a transition, to use the parlance of our time, is not good for accuracy. So, a guy who can figure, has got to figure that there's something (bad) going on during this time. As a child of the 80's, where we paid no mind to breaking the barrier, I recall vividly the magnitude that was on display when all those sound waves caught up at once. I have got to think that the pressure wave, catching back up to a bullet plays a role in the whole transonic slip accuracy problem.
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Whew, so wo are all caught up and there's no dudes wearing skirts. And no offense to my Scottsman friends. Plaid is a whole other thing. Just keep blowing the pipes. Shit, I'm sorry. Toss the pole. Ok, I'm giving up here. Nothing to see in Scotland, moving on.
So, you have a yardage estimate, some of you are fairly handy with a camera.... Any of you ever set up a high speed camera to catch the moment? Maybe this is the sort of thing that Bryan Litz would be really good for. Almost seems certain he'd have done it. Maybe I should Google.
Anyway was sitting here drinking and thinking, and nothing good ever comes from that. So, buckle up, it could be fun.
As I recall, jbm and the like will build you an estimate of what yardage (or kilo pascals for our Canadian friends) a given round will give up the good fight and fail to outrun sound.
Now, it's well established folklore, which I believe myself, that straddling such a transition, to use the parlance of our time, is not good for accuracy. So, a guy who can figure, has got to figure that there's something (bad) going on during this time. As a child of the 80's, where we paid no mind to breaking the barrier, I recall vividly the magnitude that was on display when all those sound waves caught up at once. I have got to think that the pressure wave, catching back up to a bullet plays a role in the whole transonic slip accuracy problem.
I
Whew, so wo are all caught up and there's no dudes wearing skirts. And no offense to my Scottsman friends. Plaid is a whole other thing. Just keep blowing the pipes. Shit, I'm sorry. Toss the pole. Ok, I'm giving up here. Nothing to see in Scotland, moving on.
So, you have a yardage estimate, some of you are fairly handy with a camera.... Any of you ever set up a high speed camera to catch the moment? Maybe this is the sort of thing that Bryan Litz would be really good for. Almost seems certain he'd have done it. Maybe I should Google.