User:Greg Glover

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- 2.1 To the few non-believers
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[edit] Bio

Former Ordnancemen in the US Marine Corps
Husband
Father of two Daughters and one Grandson
City Building Inspector
Compettivly Shooting, Hunting and Reloading for over 30years
Author

My attraction to Wikipedia is that I can be apart of the community. I really like the resources here and have become quit engaged. What keeps me here are the articles that cross my very person interest in small arms.

I am very dyslexic; no pity please, I just threw that out so you will understand why I misspell words (spell check not withstanding) or improperly follow Wikipedia writing etiquette.

[edit] My Avocation

Other than hunting and shooting, I build rifles and design small arms cartridges. To date I have built maybe 10 custom rifles. I start with a factory action; M700 or cheap M98. Of though’s rifles I only have one left. I use that for 1000yd competition. Hopefully this year it will take its first head of game. The chambering is a wildcat I conceived 30 years ago. I call it the .284 Achilles and is based on a .425 Westley Richards case. I also reload and have probable put several thousand pounds of lead through my presses.

I am a fanatic when it comes to "Kinetic energy”.

[edit] To the few non-believers

My responce, taken from Talk:Stopping power

Revisionist Science

I checked out the link provided 01 JUL 05, to, “impressive-sounding yet meaningless terminology” within the “Stopping power” article. The response given, “Energy does not correlate whatsoever with wounding ability” is incorrect and I believe based in the same misunderstand of bullet behavior that most people have.

The report as illustrated by the graphs is impotent. The authors failed to take into consideration a bullet construction. Bullets are constructed to perform many different tasks. By thinking that all 9mm bullets perform the same and then lumping them in with all other handgun and rifle bullets is rather silly; don’t you think? Bullets even when within the same caliber are as varied as automobiles.

If we have five different bullets: Full Metal Jacket; Cast lead; Pointed soft point; Monolithic Solid and Truncated Solid, each weighing 11.7g (180gr) and having a muzzle velocity of 823m/s (2700ft/s). Do you think all these bullets will behave the same upon impact?

The answer is no!!!

Each of the five bullets will penetrate differing distances. Each bullet will create a different “hole” size. Therefore each bullet will create a differing volume for the wound channel. Also each bullet will arrive at the target a differing down range velocity. This is due to there differing construction with dictates a differing aerodynamic profile. Each of the five bullets will have a different Ballistic Coefficient (BC). The scientifically proven and daily exercised equation for BC is a bullet’s sectional density (sd) divided by its form function (ff). This equation was developed by Wallace H. Coxe and Edgar Beugless, Ballistic engineers of E.I. du Pont, Burnside Laboratory, Wilmington, Delaware ca.1936.

Kinetic energy correlates 100% with wound ability. The proven scientific fact and daily exercised equation of transitional kinetic energy is derived from Sir Isaac Newton’s second law ca.1665 and proven by Marquise du Châtelet Gabrielle-Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil (Émilie du Châtelet) using Willem 'sGravesande research ca.1740. Just check out the artical on Émilie du Châtelet here at Wikipedia.

In conclusion the stuff you people are arguing about is a college survey class known as physics 17. This is high school level physics. It has been settled and proven science for the last 267 years. Can we please stop with the revisionist science?

Greg Glover 14:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)