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I don't think you should be worried about excessive muzzle flip in most centerfire rifles (.243, .308, 7mm-08, 30-06 for example) the bullet is gone before you get the muzzle lifting.
Now this is where we disagree. If that were true then how would you get muzzle flip from a bipod off the hood of a truck?? I did state in an earlier post that there is less barrel time in a faster cartridge. But barrel time still exists.
We will just have to agree to disagree on this one. Tom.
I'm not sure I understand the question. I thought we agreed that muzzle flip is one of the ways that a rifle recoils?
I thought of another way to explain the backwards recoil thing.
According to your theory the lead sled due to the extra weight on the rest causes a different POI right? So, in theory a person shooting from a sitting position with a bipod from a hard rest should get a different POI than the same person shooting from a prone position with a bipod and a hard rest. According to your theory this would have to occur because the shooter in the prone position would have all of their weight directly behind the rifle as opposed to the same shooter from the sitting position only having their shoulder behind the rifle.
If that were actually the case then you would have to constantly readjust your sights for all of the different hunting positions you might find yourself in ie. standing, sitting, prone, kneeling, etc, because all of them would have varying degrees of weight behind the firearm.
I guess we can disagree though.