Originally Posted by
Semisane
Good shooting there Cayugad. And both of those are fine hunting bullets.
Using the same powder charge you should expect a heavier bullet to hit higher than the lighter one. There are two reasons for this. The heavier bullet generates more recoil, so the muzzle lift is greater. And the heavier bullet is moving at a lower velocity so it's in the barrel a bit longer as the muzzle is lifted by recoil.
That doesn't make sense... recoil isn't felt until the projectile (whatever the bullet/ball may be) exits the muzzle. The charge pushing that projectile builds pressure against the weight it's trying to push and you won't feel that until the projectile exits the muzzle. You're suggesting that someone has the reaction time to literally move the barrel upward the instant the charge explodes due to felt recoil vs when the projectile actually exits the barrel if the charge is more significant?? Once the projectile has left the barrel, no amount of movement by the shooter is going to change it's flight path.
We're talking milliseconds here... no one I know is humanly fast enough to feel any recoil the instant the charge ignites.
BPS