Graphical Reloading Data A better way to understand what is going on Humans generally prefer to see information graphically as opposed to being confronted with a bunch of numbers in a table. For any cartridge/bullet weight/powder combination, the available reloading manuals give you only two data points: “starting load” and “maximum load”; and, at those…
.30 Caliber Recoil Comparisons Why use ultra-lite bullets? When first introducing your young son or daughter (or wife or girlfriend) to shooting, the two things that will challenge your efforts are noise and recoil. For a first time shooter they are SCARY. In other articles we’ve talked about flinching, muscle memory, reduced loads, plinking, etc.,…
Plinking Plinking: recreational shooting, often at “action targets” such as empty cans, that react when hit Target practice: shooting in which there is a measurable result, e.g. a paper target with a ringed bulls eye placed at a measured distance. As used around the shooting fraternity, plinking typically implies a lot of shooting. Action targets…
Reduced Load Ammo Reduced load: a cartridge loading that is designed to minimize or at least moderate noise and recoil, often with an economic benefit. Because “noise” is hard to calculate, let’s just assume that noise and recoil are directly related; that is, if you decrease the recoil and you will also decrease the noise.…
Training Muscle Memory ~ Muscle Memory: the ability to reproduce a particular motor function without conscious thought, acquired as a result of frequent repetition. In a previous article we touched on the fact that flinching is the enemy of all shooting and further suggested that the vaccine/antidote to flinching was a strong muscle memory. The…
Flinching Flinch: to draw back suddenly because of, or in anticipation of, pain or noise. With a definition like that, it would seem that shooting firearms and flinching are inexorably joined at the hip. After all, we were born with a flinch reaction to loud noises; and, the pain component might have originated shortly thereafter…