Can anyone provide me with a link to a site that lists the felt recoil of various calibers. Obviously I know that the powder charge of a particular cartridge and the size and weight of a particular gun make a difference as well. But I' m looking for a site that will perhaps give me an idea of the different amounts of recoil with some standard factory loads from a common rifle type. In particular I would like comparisons between 243, 7mm08, 25-06, and 260. I own and am very familiar with a 243 but have never shot any of the other calibers listed. I also have a 30-06 and a 7mm rem mag. So I am familiar with the level of recoil of these guns as well.
Give realguns.com( sorry,I dont know how to highlight this as a link-maybe someone can help me) a try. They also have balistic calculators that can be very helpful.
Rangerlab, go to the wed site for the information and just highlight and copy the area for the http: were it shows the address. Then go back and paste it in with your text.. I hope I helped out
You can calculate the free recoil of any gun if you know the weight of the gun, bullet, powder charge, and know the muzzle velocity. But this will not tell you how it is going to feel to fire that gun because there are other factors involved, such as stock design, etc., which vary a lot. For example, I have seen .30/30' s that hurt worse to fire than a well-stocked .30/' 06!!
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I forget how to do it all right now, but being a scientist, I work in the metric system, so I used to remember how to convert everything in ft.lbs. I' d covert everything over, then change the mass, then covert it back, which takes a long time. If I remember correctly, if you divide your muzzle energy by your projectile weight in pounds, (you' ll get a huge number), then multiply this number by the weight of your gun, this should give you the ft.lbs. of energy transferred to you by your gun. (This is not always accurate because of stock design, anglular motion alters magnitude, inaccurate initail values, your gun doesn' t shoot the same as the test barrel, and about a million other sources of error). I didn' t check it out right now, but when I do it in my head, it' s coming out to be about right, since a .30-06 round in a standard rifle should have about 25-40ft.lbs at the shoulder. Basically, it' s like this, (weight rifle)(velocity of motion)=-(weight bullet)(velocity of motion)=(energy of motion), that doesn' t look right for some reason, but I' m certain in metric it is, there is a funny conversion factor from Kgm/s to ft.lbs. because lbs has an acceleration value incorporated.
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Recoil Comparisons
