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So does this mean you are feeling 400+ ft lbs of recoil when you fire a 9mm?AndyC wrote:Well, think about it logically - use Newton's Third Law "For every action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction". If there were a punch like that, the shooter would (pretty much) feel the same impact in their hand - ouch.
I think you would if you were shooting a balsa wood zip gun, but the mass of the gun greatly absorbs the shock of the responsive force. That's very apparent in my LCP versus my wife's Bersa Thunder .380.03Lightningrocks wrote:So does this mean you are feeling 400+ ft lbs of recoil when you fire a 9mm?AndyC wrote:Well, think about it logically - use Newton's Third Law "For every action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction". If there were a punch like that, the shooter would (pretty much) feel the same impact in their hand - ouch.