So... any of our members here have an interest in firearms?

Larry S · Dec 28, 2024

The .38 is sublime and the .357 mag is total overkill for the range. We are both in love with this rifle. Super accurate, tight groups. Since he’s nervous about keeping it at his place in the city, well dad may borrow it from time to time.

Fallout Boy · Dec 29, 2024

May I ask a question here after a discussion with a friend last night: I will try to explain in my humble English!
If you adjust a rifle - let s say with .50bmg at one mile on a rifle-range in east-west direction and the turn to north and shoot at an aim -> there must be an adjustment concerning the coriolis-force. yes or no? ( calculator says 21 cm = av. 1 inch.)

Larry S · Dec 29, 2024

Fallout Boy
May I ask a question here after a discussion with a friend last night: I will try to explain in my humble English!
If you adjust a rifle - let s say with .50bmg at one mile on a rifle-range in east-west direction and the turn to north and shoot at an aim -> there must be an adjustment concerning the coriolis-force. yes or no? ( calculator says 21 cm = av. 1 inch.)

🤔:🍿:

The Father · Dec 29, 2024

Fallout Boy
May I ask a question here after a discussion with a friend last night: I will try to explain in my humble English!
If you adjust a rifle - let s say with .50bmg at one mile on a rifle-range in east-west direction and the turn to north and shoot at an aim -> there must be an adjustment concerning the coriolis-force. yes or no? ( calculator says 21 cm = av. 1 inch.)

Of course, because the toilet swirls in the opposite direction. Daaaaaaaaaa. But, really, one mile. I’m on the com asking for airstrike.

The Father · Dec 29, 2024

https://appliedballisticsllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Gyroscopic-Drift-and-Coriolis-Effect.pdf

Jesus Christ, you made me google this. No wonder I miss at one mile so much.

Larry S · Dec 29, 2024

Wow! Bigger impact that I thought it would be. Cool.

ghce · Dec 29, 2024

The Father
https://appliedballisticsllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Gyroscopic-Drift-and-Coriolis-Effect.pdf

Jesus Christ, you made me google this. No wonder I miss at one mile so much.

Larry S
Wow! Bigger impact that I thought it would be. Cool.

Yeah that does have a bigger effect than I had expected and explains why ( i am joking of course) I miss the odd Magpie at 350 meters out by just a whisker, and here I had been thinking it was my angle of inclination, wind, obturation of the round, poor BC's of the round and the associated gravitational effects due to time to impact and so on (by the way I always use an Airgun for this as its with in the technical boundaries of the city).

Wryfox · Jan 8, 2025

Larry S
The kid bought himself a present x mass eve after we got done shooting.. I will join him tomorrow for some target practice after he finishes the paperwork. .357/.38 Rossi R92 16”.

I think a 38/357 lever gun is the most versatile firearm on the planet.👍

Wryfox · Jan 8, 2025

ghce
Yeah that does have a bigger effect than I had expected and explains why ( i am joking of course) I miss the odd Magpie at 350 meters out by just a whisker, and here I had been thinking it was my angle of inclination, wind, obturation of the round, poor BC's of the round and the associated gravitational effects due to time to impact and so on (by the way I always use an Airgun for this as its with in the technical boundaries of the city).

When I first got into long range shooting (1000 yards) about 20yrs ago, I knew very little about these affects, only that there were some titters from a couple folks at the range when I simply adjusted for bullet drop. I learned quickly re spin drift and Coriolis effects. My DOPE charts have progressive windage adjustments at each distance to accommodate. I can confirm it is not easy to shoot at those distances. Of course temp, humidity, air pressure, and wind on any given day have even greater effects.

Wryfox · Jan 8, 2025

I owned my only prior Hi Power pistol 30 yrs ago and within a couple years had traded it off. Now 30yrs later I saw a cool Hi Power recently and thought how much I liked that earlier one, and wondered why between then and now I never picked up another one.

Anyhoo, here it is, an unusual piece of history, late 1941 Belgian WWII piece made under Nazi occupation. Love the idea of the Tangent sight, adds some coolness though the practicality is highly suspect. Why the extra complexity, I'm not sure(particularly given no provision for a buttstock attachment). Still reading about the history a bit. I think its the most interesting of the Hi Power lineage, and is not so fine it cannot be shot, so off the range I go!