[time-nuts] He is a Time-Nut Troublemaker....

Had had at to-way.com
Wed Dec 24 01:48:58 UTC 2008


John,

Just so won't feel alone on this list; I, also am a 'shooter' and 
have many things that go BANG, besides reverse polarity 
electrolytics. I'm a handgun target and combat nut. Of corse I load 
all own ammo.

Hadley
K7MLR


At 04:43 PM 12/23/2008, you wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:27:28 +0100, Magnus Danielson
><magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> >David M. Witten II skrev:
> >> Points of pride, I'm sure.
> >
> >All this talk still does not make me feel like going out and get a
> >firearm of any sort, fashinating as they can be in their own right.
> >
> >If someone got me involved in elk-hunting maybe, but that's about it I
> >think.
>
>I got the hunting thing out of my blood when I was still a teenager.  I'm now
>a precision shooter and a shooting nerd.  Shooting can be very exciting to the
>type that populate this list.  Internal ballistics, external ballistics,
>statistics, precision mechanics, precision electronics, etc.
>
>Ballistics timing is fast enough that you get to play with the things that
>concern time-nuts.  I have, for example, drilled an old barrel and inserted
>conductive probes every inch.  The bullet passing by makes up the circuit. The
>probes were arranged in an R/2R D/A converter circuit so that I could digitize
>them all with one fast A/D converter.  I wanted to watch the acceleration of
>the bullet down the barrel and compare it to chamber pressure.
>
>I learned that what I suspected was true, that with some powder loads, the
>acceleration process is over before the bullet exits the muzzle and that
>during the last few inches, the bullet was actually slowing from friction.
>
>It also explained why I could get almost as much velocity out of my .308 bolt
>action silhouette pistol with the 14" barrel as I could from my M-14,
>optimized power and powder weight for the pistol, of course.
>
>Finally, of course, there is the pride of accomplishment of achieving results
>that few others in the world can do.  Similar to achieving the best amateurs
>have done with time measurements.
>
>There are lots and lots of things a nerd can do with a firearm other than just
>shoot at things.
>
>John
>--
>John De Armond
>See my website for my current email address
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>Some people are like a Slinky .. not really good for anything
>  but you still smile
>when you shove them down the stairs.
>
>
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