02-07-2020, 01:57 AM
Not on topic but interesting link to effects of rain on bullet trajectory.
https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/ef...ory/372027
More on topic was a recent Guns and Ammo tv segment on flat based bullets vs. boat tail. I could not find a link so it may not be on their site yet.
It showed high speed video of both flat based bullets and boat tail bullets coming from the muzzle blast shock wave. Flat based rode ahead of it and boat tail had to go through it. That was accounted to as why flat based bullets were more accurate at up to around 400 yards.
At any rate I was trying to imagine was what happens when the rear shock wave hits the back end of the bullet at the transonic transition and if the flat based bullet would fare better or worse than the boat tail ?
https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/ef...ory/372027
More on topic was a recent Guns and Ammo tv segment on flat based bullets vs. boat tail. I could not find a link so it may not be on their site yet.
It showed high speed video of both flat based bullets and boat tail bullets coming from the muzzle blast shock wave. Flat based rode ahead of it and boat tail had to go through it. That was accounted to as why flat based bullets were more accurate at up to around 400 yards.
At any rate I was trying to imagine was what happens when the rear shock wave hits the back end of the bullet at the transonic transition and if the flat based bullet would fare better or worse than the boat tail ?