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To: MosesKnows
I'm just curious. What velocity could the average person achieve throwing an object that size? What would be the equivalent muzzle energy as the object left the hand?

A MLB fastball leaves the hand around 140 feet per second. For a non athlete with a more ordinary pitching shoulder, that would be more like 110 to 120 fps.

Throwing this tiny speck of a projectile would seem to be significantly more difficult than launching a baseball, as the bullet has essentially no inertia to balance your throwing motion against. I think 100 feet per second would be an optimistic goal.

At 100 feet per second, the 2.3mm SwissMiniGun projectile would have a muzzle energy (or more properly, a palm energy) of about .044 foot pounds - or 0.7 foot ounces.

A baseball at 140 feet per second has about 100 foot pounds of energy.

109 posted on 09/08/2006 9:13:22 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: CGTRWK; Richard-SIA
check out this comparison of a 2.7mm vs a .45

Mash here

125 posted on 09/09/2006 11:01:31 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (I traded freedom for security and all I got were these damned shackles.)
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