FlSwampRat
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To explain to customers the concept of recoil, or kick as they usually cost it, I tell them weight is on their side. They'll pick up a 9 mm pistol and say "Oh, this is too heavy, have anything lighter in 9mm?"
I use the hypothetical "You're kicking two balls, one is a soccer ball and the other a bowling ball. Broken toes notwithstanding, you kick each just as hard. Which is going farther?"
Unanimous answer is the soccer ball.
I tell them that in the shooting analogous part of that, the cartridge is doing the kicking, the ball is the gun and you're the one it's kicking it toward.
Sometimes the light comes on. Sometimes it doesn't. Guess the bulb is burned out.
I use the hypothetical "You're kicking two balls, one is a soccer ball and the other a bowling ball. Broken toes notwithstanding, you kick each just as hard. Which is going farther?"
Unanimous answer is the soccer ball.
I tell them that in the shooting analogous part of that, the cartridge is doing the kicking, the ball is the gun and you're the one it's kicking it toward.
Sometimes the light comes on. Sometimes it doesn't. Guess the bulb is burned out.