Comments on: The Science of Shooting Revealed in Fascinating NRA Videos https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/03/the-science-of-shooting-revealed-in-fascinating-nra-videos/ from AccurateShooter.com Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:26:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: Neale https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/03/the-science-of-shooting-revealed-in-fascinating-nra-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-44422 Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:58:25 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=54529#comment-44422 These were pretty good. What I really think the NRA should focus more on, is training people on firearm part nomenclature, and mechanics, cycles of operation if you will.

]]> By: Outrider27 https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/03/the-science-of-shooting-revealed-in-fascinating-nra-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-44410 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:45:27 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=54529#comment-44410 The ballistic pendulum caught my eye. My junior year in high school, we did a variation on that in physics class (can you imagine the teacher asking for a volunteer (ended up me)to bring in an air rifle the next day?). So in came my .22 pump Crosman (this was in early 1961), with no one the least bit startled when I walked down the hall with it and delivered it to the physics classroom. The actual experiment consisted of weighing the pellet and then balancing a precisely weighed wooden block on the muzzle (the rifle was held vertical) after pumping it 5 times, pulling the trigger, and having several students stationed at the back of the classroom for the best viewing angle record the maximum height the wooden block (with the pellet embedded in it) reached on the wall behind the rifle. A crude ballistic pendulum, but it enabled calculation of velocity and energy. I always wonder what they do today instead of that experiment – probably nothing.

Of course, what I remember most was that a cute girl that I had been too shy to ask out thought the pump gun was cool and asked if I would teach her to shoot it….

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