Long Range Shooting - A Load of Old Spin - Coriolis Effect & Magnus Effect:

Years ago back in 1835 - when they did a lot of history - a bloke called Coriolis invented a 'fictitious force' called the 'Coriolis Effect'.  - Before that - things didn't spin so much and just sort-of jumped up'n'down and wobbled a bit when they had earthquakes and stuff..

Long range shooters need to consider the Coriolis effect when shooting beyond a couple of hundred yards (it's even worse if you're using metrics eh).

The Coriolis effect is caused by the inertia of the Earth spinning to the EAST at around a 1,040 mph at the equator and this is easily observed now that we have man-made satellites - by the tendency of low pressure storms to rotate in a clockwise manner in the Northern hemisphere when seen from above.(That bloke Coriolis must have had a hunch eh)

Northern Hemisphere Storm.

 - and in the other direction in the Southern Hemisphere ..

Southern Hemisphere Storm.

From a shooting perspective in the Northern Hemisphere this will cause your shots to deflect to the RIGHT.

- While down here in "The Antipodes" our shots are deflected to the LEFT. (- Incidentally our antipodes is Spain).

When you are shooting roughly East-West (or West-East) in either hemisphere there is no sight correction required  - however if you are shooting on a North-South alignment you may observe this bullet drift - if the projectiles base is visible in your optics.

- Now feel free to argue about this among yourselves - but another example of the rotational effect of planet Earth is that your bath water will rotate anti-clockwise when draining in the planets'  upper half - and down here in the lower Pacific - it will spin clockwise.

'Pommie Plughole'

Confession: Now I have absolutely no experience of this because I have not had a bath in forty years (since coming to NZ). (- Mind you I have been swimming - does that count?)

Please do not confuse this Coriolis Effect with the Magnus Effect (invented by a different old bloke)- which is the "curve-ball phenomenon" resulting from the air moving differently on opposite sides of a spinning object. This causes a speeding bullet to 'crab' to either side depending on the direction of the barrel rifling. You need to consider 'yaw' together with the bullets centre of pressure - as opposed to its centre of gravity.

- Is everybody happy?

- This is slightly interesting too.. (Google is your friend)

E SHIP 1 Uses 'Magnus Effect' With 'Flettner Rotors'.

- Clever Germans eh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pQga7jxAyc

Marty K.

P.S. I'm sure that those who have read this far will not be surprised to hear that the duration of a modern day is around 1.7 milliseconds longer than it was a hundred years ago - as the rate of Earths spin slows. This doesn't have much effect on long range accuracy but..

However - today's starter question for ten points: Which direction would you need to fly (in a long-range aircraft) to go directly to your antipodes?

MK.

Jack Ruby Colt Cobra Revolver:

November 22 1963 President Kennedy was assassinated. - Two days later the man accused of the shooting Lee Harvey Oswald was himself shot & killed live on television by someone known as Jack Ruby.

Jacob Leonard Rubenstein born in 1911 of Polish Orthodox-Jewish parents was an 'underworld figure' involved in nightclubs, strippers, prostitution, drugs and gambling. He moved in the same circles as local Mafia bosses and had been in Cuba in 1959 visiting with known Casino operating Mafia figures.

TIMELINE IN CONTEXT:

26 July 1959: The Fidel Castro led CUBAN REVOLUTION.

17 April 1961: The CIA failed BAY of PIGS INVASION. - It took Castro 3 days to defeat the 1,400 para-military invaders and their 8x US B26 Bombers.

28 October 1962: The CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS ended** - and the blockade was formally lifted November 20 1962.

22 November 1963: PRESIDENT J F KENNEDY ASSASSINATED in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. - & 45 minutes later Oswald shot and killed Patrolman 848 JD Tippet.

24 November 1963: LEE HARVEY OSWALD killed by 'Jack Ruby'.

03 January 1967: "JACK RUBY" dies in prison from of lung cancer.

05 June 1968: Robert F KENNEDY shot by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan using an Ivor Johnson Cadet .22" caliber revolver.

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** At 18 years old - I took a day off work - if the missiles were going to rain-down - I didn't want to end-up preserved in molten plastic like a fly in amber - I was going to be vaporized properly at home in comfort - not in a shitty plastics factory.

'Jack Ruby' with a club worker.
Shot Oswald November 24 1963

Ruby had close ties to many Dallas Police officers who frequented his nightclubs, where he provided them with free liquor, prostitutes and other favors.

Ruby's Cop friend Joe Cody bought the gun 'tax free' for Ruby from Rays Sporting Goods, Dallas for $62.50 - saving Ruby $18 tax.

When 'Ruby' gut-shot Oswald - the whole tragic Kennedy Assassination moved up into a confusing series of inquiries that offered conflicting evidence and conclusions - serving mainly to obscure any evidence. - Now, 53 years later - you can choose your own 'facts' to back-up whatever conspiracy theory you support.

 The Warren Commission findings stated that both Oswald and Ruby acted alone.

Ruby's Colt Cobra Revolver .38" Special.

The Scratched Initials Are The Arresting Officers.

- Many surfaces of the revolver now bear the scratched initials of four arresting officers, - dates & evidence numbers and a scratched arrow on the cylinder points to the chamber that fired the fatal shot..

'Ruby' died 'innocent' (following an appeal) on January 3 1967 in prison - from lung cancer that he claimed he had been injected with.

 His revolver - sometimes called "The most Famous Gun in The World" was released to his estate and then was sold for $220,000 by the executor Earl Ruby on December 26 1991 to Anthony Pugliese** a "real estate developer" - who has recently been charged with money laundering and fraud in Florida.

** Pugliese (& five other investors) used the name "Fred Roman" for the auction purchase.

Anthony Pugliese III With The Ruby Colt.

The .38 Colt Cobra Serial No. 2744LLW has been used to fire many 'commemorative rounds' into a swimming pool to sell to collectors and has been well exploited - while some reckon the actual gun is worth 2 or 3 Million Dollars.

Each $1,000 Plaque includes a Fired Round.

Lee Harvey Oswald's Russian born wife Marina Oswald Porter is now a 72 year old grandmother & claims that she is still under FBI surveillance in Texas - and that there was a high level cover-up of the whole affair.

- Only in America?

Marty K.
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NZ FIREARMS LAW CHANGES:

Heads-up:

All law abiding shooters and collectors here in New Zealand need to pay attention carefully ..

Parliament is going to bring about further expensive restrictions and REGISTRATION requirements.

The Inquiry into ILLEGAL POSSESSION is moving towards increased and expensive law changes that will specifically seek to further oppress 'Fit & Proper' Licensed Firearms Users.

PLEASE follow this link and take the time to read it:

http://www.sportshooter.co.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6319

YOU individually need to join a shooting organization such as COLFO or SSANZ.

- Only some 80 New Zealand shooters bothered to make a submission to The Parliamentary Inquiry - so that chance was missed by most of the shooting people.

- now you can just lay back and take what ever nonsense they throw at you - or try to stand up and be heard

Marty K.

Arsenal Firearms AF2011-A1 Double-Barrel 1911:

I just watched Hickok45 review the Brick - I guess he kind-of liked it - as a novelty - it certainly looks beautifully engineered & finished.

Arsenal Arms AF2011-A1 in 45 acp.

- I guess that while he wasn't exactly lost for words - he struggles to explain this pistol rationally - he appears 'bemused'.

https://www.full30.com/video/e119177002dcd4941391d87cdb3c14da?utm_source=system&utm_medium=email&utm_content=hickok45&utm_campaign=subscribers

Costing over US$7,000. for this tested  'Dueler Prismatic' compensated piece it's perhaps a "novelty" - maybe even a coffee table show-and-tell piece. For that price you might buy TEN Glocks that work.

- It threatens to snap like an alligator when dropping the slide and Hickok says that you need to double-check everything when working with it ..

Hmmm - interesting eh, - double-trouble - but then I don't like 'ole slabside' 45s anyway. - Maybe a Glock 20 in 45" caliber..

Marty K.
P.S. Am I wrong in observing that Hickok45 received a sample Kimber K6S revolver for review before he got this .45? - what has happened to the Kimber revolver??

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Key Personnel Resignations:

- Funny how our Prime Minister John Key and the Italian -  one Matteo Renzi  - have both spat-out the dummy & chucked it in on the same day.

Nice watch eh.

Multi-Millionaire Key who was known as the 'Smiling Assassin' when he worked for Merrill Lynch in London - became known as "Teflon John" here in New Zealand after several gaffs showed that 'nothing seemed to stick to him'.

His politics are typical of any right-minded millionaire accountant - and the proles voted for him as he had a nice smile.

I doubt that his passing-on to greater wealth and luxury will much effect firearms users here, unless Minister of Police Judith Collins puts her hat into the ring for the job ..

Nice Rings.

- because she seems to like both Glocks and coffee.

- I'd have to ask her if she'd guest a blog here for me.. perhaps one about Oravida (Kauri Ruakaka Mill) exporting protected swamp Kauri logs to China.

Marty K.

The Gun Problem - Perspective Rather Than Perception:

Joke of the day: - Did you hear about the insomniac, agnostic, dyslexic? - He lay awake all night wondering if there really was a Dog.

To start - I have to explain that I don't have a clue about these specific chemical compounds. - Other than alcohol, tobacco & coffee - the only "drugs" that I've personally experienced was one 'reefer' cigarette in the dim & distant past that a young guy gave me to try around 1970 .. and having dragged all of its smoke deeply into my lungs and holding - I spent the next three/four hours feeling very ill from vertigo with my known world (a grubby toilet cubicle) spinning violently.

No Thanks.

However we all should pause to consider that while some 91 Americans die daily from guns (two thirds are suicides) - 78 victims die each day from overdosing of opioids - plus some 250 US persons die each day from 'Medical Misadventure' - suggesting 'doctors' may be a much bigger problem than firearms.

I'm assuming here that there are also further drug deaths directly caused by addictions other than opioids - you might do some checking of data yourself.. I don't really want to know all the sick detail.

What I'm saying is that we & the 'muricans' have other societal issues than guns to worry about eh.
- this is known as having Perspective. (as opposed to 'perception').

So - while buying a gun no more makes you a skilled & prepared shooter - than does buying a violin make you a musician - or owning a stethoscope makes you a doctor. - Don't let the hysterical screaming of the anti-gunners misdirect or deter you either - about e.g. You being more likely to shoot your toes off while laying in bed if you own a gun.

The rantings of frightened ignorant & stressed-out anti-gun paranoids certainly confirms that THEY should not have access to any potentially lethal object (such as a kitchen knife) and they should not be trusted near young children, or behind the wheel of motor vehicles. - Anyone complaining of loss of control with violent impulses when they handle a sharp or heavy object needs careful watching and supervision at all times.

It would be great if all bizarre believers,  'god-botherers' - 'bambi-cuddlers' - 'anti-gunners' and 'Climate Change deniers' - along with various other nutcase freaks like psychic mediums & UFO abductees (who might have had bodily fluid samples taken) .. diet-book writers, marketing executives, other con-artists, lobbyists - and proponents of extra-terrestrial ancestors - who might benefit from a partial lobotomy or electric shock treatment - could be re-educated - or conditioned to reality but .. They're all strangers to TRUTH.

A new term "Post Truth Politics" is becoming widespread in this age of corruption - referring to the way politicians ignore facts and real issues to persist with emotional arguments that 'scratch the itch' of poorly informed, aggrieved & resentful groups. - This seems to echo Orwells 1984 novel - where his ministry rewrites history every day to match their current policy needs.

It is now evident that both sides in the "BREXIT" referendum debate deliberately misinformed and repeatedly lied to the British voters about tax savings and likely benefits about the EU membership.

- Both the US Govt. and the British PM Tony Blair 'misspoke' about "Weapons of Mass Destruction" before attacking & invading Iraq in 2003.

- Why are these Fraudsters and Liars not prosecuted?

- It may be that "we" don't even care anymore about the truth - as so much media content we see now is political 'Spin', - product-placement advertising and 'special effects' with unscripted  "Reality Television" that is totally directed & edited, with enhanced images & re-staged unreal rubbish.

- Mind Control: - Anyone continually & repeatedly exposed to a proposition will likely accept it as a 'belief'. - exempli gratia - 99% of religious persons believe the same story that their parents taught them .. about  magic infallible writings (Confucian Great Learning, Bible, Koran, Tanach, Buddahavacana, Vedas, Kojiki, Communist Manifesto etc.) - plus Father Christmas and the tooth fairies .. unless/until they eventually learn differently.

(How else would any 'civilized' post-industrial nation of some 65 Million folk promote as a superior being - & worship by bowing before a 'supernatural' - the aged matriarch of a "royal family"?)

".. it's the bloody Unions that have ruined this country"

FACT: The United Kingdom is governed by a constitutional monarchy. (not a Democracy).

Wikipedia says:

Critics have linked "corporate brainwashing" with globalization, saying that corporations are attempting to create a world-wide mono-cultural network of producers, consumers, and managers.  

A sub-genre is "corporate mind control", in which a future society is run by one or more business corporations which dominate society using advertising and mass media to control the population's thoughts and feelings.

 - Does this sound familiar to you?

Marty K.                          

Doomsday Clock - XMAS Piece & Goodiesl:

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells - Jingle All The Way ...

- All I want for Christmas -  is a box from USA ..

- Before you do your bit to support the December 'Free Market' and spend  too much on shop-bought prezzies  - you might like to pause and consider that the Doomsday Clock right now is set at three minutes to Midnight.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists stresses the following:

"The Bulletin's clock is not a gauge to register the ups and downs of the international power struggle; it is intended to reflect basic changes in the level of continuous danger in which mankind lives in the nuclear age..."

I don't surely need to point-out that this graph is showing VERY high risk to mankind - & it does not include any input from the recent selection of President Elect Trump in USA.

So ...

- Do UK inmates still get a Three Minutes Warning  siren of incoming missiles .. or has that been cut for 'Austerity' reasons?

- Is it me ..or has the whole world gone mad?

It does seem that the UKs Nuclear Deterrent Trident submarine launched missiles now require THREE DAYS notice before they can be used (Budget Cuts again): - Current Trident replacement cost is 205 BILLION POUNDS. - and rising.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/three-minute-nuclear-warning-is-now-three-days-281991.html

- Should the UK be devastated by a nuclear attack without you receiving your 3 minute warning entitlement - Please complain in writing to your local representative Member of Parliament (No postage stamp required).

Marty K.