Recent content by rhadamanthos12

I don't think you can count it that way, the powder is a potential energy. Upon ignition it become kinetic energy, if there was another force acting on the powder and the powder was not acting as a source of work on the bullet then you might be able to include it into your recoil calculation

What happens with combustion is you end up with by products, if the combustion isn't complete which usually it isn't you don't use all the available energy, the unburned components appear as smoke,soot, etc. You can use the by products to determine how much air was used or wasted in your...

You might need to adjust the decapping pin, I have had my decapping pin move on me before (223 dies from lee). The way I fixed it was to loosen the decapping pin screw assembly (to the point that you can move the pin with a little bit of pressure but not where it is falling out), raise a...

Hello Everyone, I'm 28yr old currently living in Southern New Mexico, I have a wife and two young daughters (2.5 and 1.5yrs old), former Air Force (AFSC 2E151), work full time doing satellite communications and almost finished with my Mechanical Engineering degree. I reload and try to go shoot...