Can someone calculate the energy...
for a .458 325 grain Hornady FTX bullet traveling at 2027 fps for me? I don't have any software that will do that and I cannot find a similar bullet in any of my loading manuals. Thanks!
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Thats about 3000 foot pounds. See page 81 on this pdf file.
http://www.hornady.com/assets/files/ballistics/ballistics_charts.pdf
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quote:Originally posted by babun
Thats about 3000 foot pounds. See page 81 on this pdf file.
http://www.hornady.com/assets/files/ballistics/ballistics_charts.pdf
Bob
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Handy calculators from www.handloads.com are about halfway down the right column. [8D] 0 -
I get 2964 ft/lbs. 3000 is probably close enough. Velocity times velocity divided by a million times bullet weight times 2.22. (Velocity is in fps and bullet wt. is in grs.) Try it! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by badchris
Handy calculators from www.handloads.com are about halfway down the right column. [8D]
Great link! Thanks!0 -
quote:Originally posted by Ambrose
I get 2964 ft/lbs. 3000 is probably close enough. Velocity times velocity divided by a million times bullet weight times 2.22. (Velocity is in fps and bullet wt. is in grs.) Try it!
Wow...who figures this stuff out.?.?0 -
Energy of anything is just speed times mass. Simple 9th grade math. The trick is to convert to foot/pounds which everyone uses for most comparisons. [:(] 0 -
You probably found this one
http://www.handloads.com/calc/index.html0 -
"Wow...who figures this stuff out.?.?"
E=MC squared: I believe it was Albert Einstein.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Ambrose
"Wow...who figures this stuff out.?.?"
E=MC squared: I believe it was Albert Einstein.
I think that is still just a theory. Mass {M} times the speed of light{C} times itself {squared} equals energy. The closest we have come to prove it is called a thermonuclear explosion.[;)]0 -
quote:Originally posted by Ambrose
"Wow...who figures this stuff out.?.?"
E=MC squared: I believe it was Albert Einstein.
babun hit on the point I was making...converting all that into data we can use.0 -
Sounds like a 45-70 load, shoot a 350gr out of my Marlin 1895CB just a little faster. Works great on elk, shoot a 400gr Barnes SS out of my Siamese Mauser 45-70 about that fast. Keeps the elephants out of the tomato garden, and the rhinos out of the rhubarb.[:D]
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