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To: CGTRWK
About 10 ounces of muzzle energy. It fires a 2 grain projectile at 400 feet per second.

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?

69 posted on 09/08/2006 11:58:40 AM PDT by MosesKnows
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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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