There is an article in the July '11 "GunHunter" magazine about "Ballistic Balance". I was wondering if anyone else had read it. It is about figuring out how "balanced" your load and rifle are. I've been trying to figure out what the point was and how the author came up with these numbers he gives. At this point it just seems to be a not-so-real-world method to compare stuff.

The article says to take the velocity and divide it by the energy for one of the "relationships". Supposedly the closer this number is to 1 the better it is. The other "relationship" is between the recoil energy and the trajectory. I'm currently bumfuzzled altogether on that one. Finally you multiply the velocity/energy "relationship" by the recoil energy/trajectory "relationship" to get a number that, again, should be close to 1.

I'm curious as to what others of you think about it.

PKslinger, you're going to have to PM the article to me. There has got to be some other factors in his equations for this to make any sense since energy is velocity squared.

Slim, I couldn't find the article online. Maybe I can scan it into a text file tomorrow.

sounds like someone is tryn to reinvent the wheel AGAIN ,man if it goes bang and makes nice holes in paper/kills your game animal cleanly. who gives a hoot what some digbats formular says about balance...

Sounds like someone has been smoking his own "product" mate. Seriously though, like Slim, I would have to read the entire article to even start to get my head around the concept...and what he is trying to prove/show.

Cheers, Vince

IS THIS SUPPOSED TO STOP OR MINIMIZE BARREL WHIP? NEVER HEARD OF THIS APPLICATION??

Roadjocky, it has nothing to do with the barrel vibrations. To be honest at this point I'm not sure what its for.

what is his favorite cartridge? oh never mind i already have some of my own, now i just have to come up with a formula to prove it. pass me another this might take awhile

Well, the .308 has the "perfect" balance of 1... Sorry I haven't scanned the article yet, been kinda busy.

Pumpkinslinger wrote:

Sorry I haven't scanned the article yet, been kinda busy.

today, yesterday, the day before, day before that one!

My Ballistic Ballance can be severly affected by my bombastic beer intake *hic burrrp!* Scuseme.

Hey Pumkin, if you don't have time to scan the article could you at least publish the equations from the author?

Ok, I have to say it. PKslinger, your as bad as (fill in the blank). You've peaked our interest then you left us high and dry.

Here's a link to Ballistic Balance.

Ballistic Balance

slimjim wrote:

then you left us high and dry.

hOw dRy i aM! *hicup!*