On May 8, 12:59 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2007 08:24:01 +0200, "Hendrik van Rooyen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > > So being an idle bugger, I just naturally assumed that the > > speed would have doubled in the intervening time since > > I was last involved in this subject. - hence the 5000. > > Development tends to go in both directions... Massive rounds moving > at, or slightly slower, than "typical" (2000fps) vs very light rounds > moving at really high speeds (the various .17). > > > Did you know that the first military smokeless powder > > round was for the French Lebel? - It threw a bronze > > ball, and could punch through a single brick wall. > > Well, extreme high speed wouldn't help for that -- just get a > surface splatter. Heavy and slower... (or some sort of solid core -- > depleted uranium with a teflon coating)
And penetration isn't always desireable. A slow, heavy round will punch a tunnel through your arm muscle, but a fast, light round will take your entire arm off. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > (Bestiaria Support Staff: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list