In both Bullet Trajectory Part 1 and Part 2, I mentioned how light can act as a variable that affects point of impact. Light doesn't directly affect bullet trajectory, but it changes the way you see the target through the telescopic sight. Essentially, you perceive the target in a different way, e.g., larger or smaller, and/or in a different place, depending on the sun's … [Read more...]
Lately, we've been talking about long range shooting, but what better place to start then with some ballistics theory. In the last post in this series, bullet trajectory part 1, I talked about the variables that determine the vertical component of bullet trajectory. In this article we will examine what happens on the horizontal plane. On the horizontal plane, the bullet does … [Read more...]
Following the long range shooting series? Here's the next installment of external ballistics theory: the Coriolis Effect. On Bullet Trajectory Part 1 and part 2, I talked about Coriolis Effect as a variable which affect the bullet flight both on the horizontal and the vertical plane of the trajectory. But what exactly is Coriolis Effect? When talking about ballistics, the … [Read more...]
