Thread: The Maths of Recoil

Greetings All,
My apologies to any who felt mislead by my posts. In retrospect I should have taken the time to get the differences between momentum and kinetic energy straight in my head before starting. The point of my posts was to, in general terms, show that the powder charge plays an important part in the recoil we feel and in answer to Micky's question why short barrel rifles boot more than longer barrel rifles with the same ballistics. I tried to keep away from formula to keep things simple to understand but did not do a particularly good job of that. Hopefully most of us have still learnt something in the process, I know that I have.
Regards Grandpamac