Vector Mystery Solved!

[misANTHrope]

All of this because some folks just can't grasp the idea that something invisible, like recoil, can actually have an effect. So since recoil, being hard to imagine, does not (to them) exist, something else must operate those pistols. Something that can be seen or felt, like friction or pressure.

Interestingly enough, though you seem to continue to debunk all the talk about how it is gas pressure that creates recoil, you have yet to explain exactly why gas pressure has no bearing on the functioning of the gun. It's the force resultant of this pressure that both accelerates the bullet forward out of the barrel and accelerates the slide and barrel rearward.

 

[Tamara]

niemand,

"Blow Foreward" Designs (By Example; "Schwarzlose") Function from "Standing-Breech" i.e. "Immovable Surface".

Indeed, but something's imparting forward motion to the barrel. If, as has been stated by some, the bullet imparts rearward force on the barrel, what could it be?

My vote? The bullet, regardless of what some here have asserted, imparts an initial forward force to the barrel while engaged with the rifling...

 

[Andrew Wyatt]

I was about to say something about blow forward guns not working the way tams thinks they do, but now that i think about it, she's pretty much right, except that it's not just the bullet that has an effect on the barrel getting blown forward.

 

[1911Tuner]

Forward!

Tamara said:

My vote? The bullet, regardless of what some here have asserted, imparts an initial forward force to the barrel while engaged with the rifling...
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Tuner sez------> Yep.

 

[misANTHrope]

As far as the "blow-forward" thing goes, the bullet will impart a forward force upon the barrel via friction, during its entire line of travel down the barrel. And unless some kind of bizarre gas-directing system is in there (which I doubt), that frictional force is the only force that could possibly push the barrel forward.

 

[NMshooter]

What a long wild ride this has been so far! I like learning new stuff.

 

[niemand]

Forget not, in "Blow-Foreward", Projectile acts as "Mobile Stopple", Gas does seek additional Room to Expand.

Thus (In very brief increments of time) One has "Moving Cork upon Column of Expanding-Gas" Klar?