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rifle / shot torque
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If you shoot a rifle with a right hand twist barrel, will the torque of the shot try to rotate the rifle itself to the left or to the right?
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#141956 - 03/30/07 06:07 PM Re: rifle / shot torque [Re: 408-CHEYANNE]
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Torques to the left.
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#142049 - 03/30/07 07:29 PM Re: rifle / shot torque [Re: G.Ruff]
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Yup...I demonstrated this for someone the other day with my rifle...
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#142051 - 03/30/07 07:33 PM Re: rifle / shot torque [Re: longrange8541]
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But if you have a muzzle break that is set to counter the torque.......


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#142126 - 03/30/07 08:40 PM Re: rifle / shot torque [Re: Triad]
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Good point....I never thought of that before....does it? I can understand it for recoil but does it work for torque as well?
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#143340 - 04/01/07 09:21 AM Re: rifle / shot torque [Re: longrange8541]
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I would think that the torque would only occur while the bullet is still in the barrel, so a muzzle brake designed to counteract this would only be able to react to what has already taken place.Too late to do any good.Just my .02.

the real torque occurs in the bolts in their necks! Just a little too tight.

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"I would think that the torque would only occur while the bullet is still in the barrel, so a muzzle brake designed to counteract this would only be able to react to what has already taken place.Too late to do any good.Just my .02."

A very dark place indeed. If we could just completely ignore inertia, and completely ignore the fact that gas escapes past the bullet, and completely ingore the fact that there is gas in the barrel ahead of the bullet: then we could completely ignore the fact that brakes work for recoil as well as countering torque.

"Too late to do any good", would accurately describe most all of the lame thinking on Sniveler's Hype. There is no helping them. I got several calls yesterday describing this very thread, and we all had a really good laugh at their expense. When the simplest of things are such a challenge for some to grasp, it is just sad.

Yea i was thinking when i read this that if the counter torque brake wouldnt work then a muzzle brake wouldnt either. All the hiders have to do is ask ***** and George, either one of them can tell ya "rifles dont torque". I wonder why bench rest rifles have such wide fore arms? I have often wondered why when i shot the sight picture is way off to the side when recoil is over and every thing calms down. I guess my gun is not balanced properly,it has a bolt handle and saftey on one side and nothing on the other. Ebb

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I guess my gun is not balanced properly,it has a bolt handle and saftey on one side and nothing on the other. Ebb

Now that is funny!

Is Ebb left handed?

No Ebb is not left handed. I have enough trouble getting along in the world with out being left handed and trying to use all the tools and devices made for right handers.I have considered making a bolt without a handle and just welding a washer or a little flat piece of metal to the back. That way i could clamp a little set of vise grips to it and use the vise grips for a bolt handle. Thia way i would always have a set of vise grips handy, and no one would confuse me a Snipershider. Ebb