tbige
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Appreciate your thoughts on which would give most (perceived, if you like) recoil in 44 Special: a 180-grain bullet at 980 fps or a 210 at 700?
but you can get a rough estimate by just doing bullet mass x velocity.
Actually: mass X velocity = linear momentum.
Energy = 1/2 m X velocity (squared)
This is the reason that the 180-gr has about 70% more energy (see post from P95carry).
Lighter bullets going faster tend to have shorter, sharper recoil impulses, while heavier bullets going slower tend to feel more like a longer push.