Flying Backwards
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SurplusShooter
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Newtons law for every action there is an equel reaction.
Ridge_Runner_5
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You only fly backwards if you are in a Beech Starship 
Flying backwards.
I have heard before, from some folks on this board even, that a .45 ACP will remove the limbs of adults and vaporize dogs or small children.
I have also heard that 9mm will simply cause an itchy rash near the point of impact.
Apparently though the .50 GI will actually reduce full size cattle to puddles of liquid and can knock over mobile homes.
Let's not even get to the .44 Magnum......
I have heard before, from some folks on this board even, that a .45 ACP will remove the limbs of adults and vaporize dogs or small children.
I have also heard that 9mm will simply cause an itchy rash near the point of impact.
Apparently though the .50 GI will actually reduce full size cattle to puddles of liquid and can knock over mobile homes.
Let's not even get to the .44 Magnum......
There can be a psychological/physiological reaction that sends you backward at a pretty good clip.
A friend, LEO and formerly chief of a major city's PD, describes going straight back onto her butt when hit center-of-mass while wearing a vest. She says her clearest memory is of flying backward, shooting between her feet and thinking, more than anything else, "Don't! DO NOT shoot your own foot!"
For the record, good guys one, bad guy minus one.
A friend, LEO and formerly chief of a major city's PD, describes going straight back onto her butt when hit center-of-mass while wearing a vest. She says her clearest memory is of flying backward, shooting between her feet and thinking, more than anything else, "Don't! DO NOT shoot your own foot!"
For the record, good guys one, bad guy minus one.
A vest will stop the bullet faster, meaning decreasing momentum faster.
Newton's second law:
dp/dt = F
Meaning you'll experience more force if the bullet is stopped in less time (less distance). Btw, consider being hit by a fist in the chest (for those that have experienced it). Your body automatically moves backwards, to decrease the impact. Most punches wouldn't be hard enough to send you backwards too, but your body protects itself. I think a bullet would have the same effect.
Newton's second law:
dp/dt = F
Meaning you'll experience more force if the bullet is stopped in less time (less distance). Btw, consider being hit by a fist in the chest (for those that have experienced it). Your body automatically moves backwards, to decrease the impact. Most punches wouldn't be hard enough to send you backwards too, but your body protects itself. I think a bullet would have the same effect.
oneounceload
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The only gun I have seen that will literally make something fly backwards is the mini gun on the A-10 - it will, literally, push the plane backwards when firing
Everything else is just not true
Everything else is just not true
Drummer101
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I have seen people stumble backwards, but no flying yet.
Less you could the A Team with flying in the tank and using the main cannon to guide it
Less you could the A Team with flying in the tank and using the main cannon to guide it
oneounceload,
What do you play with that makes that 30mm a "mini" gun?
Specifications
Weight 619.5 lb (281 kg)
Length 19 ft 10.5 in (6.06 m) (total system)
112.28 in (2.85 m) (barrel only)
Barrel length 90.5 in (2.30 m)
Width 17.2 in (0.437 m) (barrel only)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger
What do you play with that makes that 30mm a "mini" gun?
Specifications
Weight 619.5 lb (281 kg)
Length 19 ft 10.5 in (6.06 m) (total system)
112.28 in (2.85 m) (barrel only)
Barrel length 90.5 in (2.30 m)
Width 17.2 in (0.437 m) (barrel only)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger
oneounceload
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well, an M1-Abrams makes that a mini gun.....as does most artillery.....
warrior poet
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Everyone talks about "tactical" rifles... I prefer strategic one: M777A2- 155mm cannon. I hate to give props to the 0811s, but it is the biggest "rifle" on the battlefield.
P.S. The A-10s main gun is the 30mm Avenger. It is a Gatling based design, a larger version of the "minigun," the M134- 7.62 mm. Some people call ALL Gatling based designs "miniguns."
Semper Fi
P.S. The A-10s main gun is the 30mm Avenger. It is a Gatling based design, a larger version of the "minigun," the M134- 7.62 mm. Some people call ALL Gatling based designs "miniguns."
Semper Fi
hnl.flyboy
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9mm rounds just stun the target. .45 ACP, hit anywhere on the body, will instantly open up a space-time disturbance and send pieces of the target flying everywhere, some into the mini-black hole and never found again.
Wait......
Wat?
*COUGH*
*orange soda traverses from mouth to nostrils*
OWWWWWW!!!
While I know what you mean, I have to correct this one. It should be:
A 9x19mm would have enough energy to send a 75kg person moving at 4 m/s for example, but not all energy is transformed into movement, so only the impulse matters. For example: even the mighty 50 BMG only has enough impulse to move a person back at 0.5448 m/s, given that it would transfer ALL impules (which would require a lot of steel in that person
)30-30remchester
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I shot a small deer at 3' with a 12 guage slug. The shot was square between the eyes, the deer didnt even blink. No being thrown into the next county, but I would have thought it should have blinked.