Salazar Reviews Modern Exterior Ballistics by Robert McCoy
G. Salazar regularly reviewed important shooting books on his RiflemansJournal.com website. One of the notable treatises reviewed by German is Modern Exterior Ballistics by Bob McCoy, the respected expert from the U.S. Army Ballistics Research Laboratory.
Salazar tells us: “We hope to cover a very wide range of books related to accurate rifles; some will be familiar to experienced students of the rifle, some will be quite obscure. There is no specific time frame for the books, so you may see something from the 19th century one month and a new book hot off the press the next. The only common factor is that these will all be books that have appeal to the serious student of rifle accuracy.” Here is a segment of Salazar’s review of Modern Exterior Ballistics:
Modern Exterior Ballistics – Robert L. McCoy
Review by G. Salazar
Bob McCoy is widely and properly regarded as the dean of modern ballisticians and this book is his most accessible work. For those who are not familiar with McCoy’s work, I can think of no better introduction than these words, written after McCoy’s death, which appear as a dedication to the book over the signatures of 54 of his fellow ballisticians at the U.S. Army Ballistics Research Laboratory:
“This book on exterior ballistics represents the life work and passion of Bob McCoy. It was his wish to leave a historical perspective as well as an accurate technical treatise for both the engineering community and the sporting arms industry. Bob was in fact an aerospace engineer, but he always referred to himself as a ‘ballistician’. He was very proud to have worked for and served the American people for 30 years at the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory while truly enjoying his passion. Bob was one of the most respected members of the staff of the U.S. Army Ballistics Research Laboratory and had an international reputation in aeroballistics. We will always remember his professionalism, his enthusiasm, his boisterous laugh, his passion for ballistics, and most of all, his friendship. We his students, his co-workers, his peers, and his friends dedicate this book to the memory of the last true ballistician of the 20th century.”
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Modern Exterior Ballistics Author: Robert L. McCoy 1999, Schiffer Publ., Ltd. ISBN: 0-7643-0720-7 |
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The book is without equal in two respects: first as a modern ballistics book.
And second regarding the amount of misprints in it. This might have to do with the untimely death of Robert MCoy and the printing of the book in China. From the website of J.B. Millard a PDF file can be downloaded that contains corrections. It runs to 20 pages. The URL is: http://www.jbmballistics.com
Select Ballistics, then Bibliography and proceed to the item covering this book.
EDITOR: Thanks for finding the 20-page Corrections PDF. I’ve placed a direct link to this PDF file in the above table, on the right.
Thanks JP, I added that to the article.
German
Thanks JP, I added that to the article.
German
Nice review German.
McCoy truly was ‘the man’. Without him and this book, the ‘state of the art’ would be substantially behind where it is now.
-Bryan
Yes, current ‘state of the art’ would be mere rules of thumb, if not for McCoy’s best defining of truths.
Will be great reading for us accuracy buffs.