And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Slow mo video of a Ruger tossing a bullet downrange
I was surprised at the spirals of carbon thrown off by the bullet as it flies.
It is the jacket (and/or lead) pushed aside by the rifling. Has to go somewhere. As the rifling cuts the bullet, it is compressed and pushed back to the end of the bullet. , and comes off much like a "rooster tail" behind a speedboat.
It's a copper jacketed bullet. I don't think that's lead. I suspect that it's unburned powder residue.
ReplyDeleteCool film. I agree that the spiraling powder was probably gunpowder.
ReplyDeleteJacketed bullet. lead underneath.
ReplyDeleteIt is the jacket (and/or lead) pushed aside by the rifling. Has to go somewhere. As the rifling cuts the bullet, it is compressed and pushed back to the end of the bullet. , and comes off much like a "rooster tail" behind a speedboat.
Learn something new here everyday!
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