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Originally Posted by telekinetic
[/COLOR]For the peanut gallery, and Strange Famous, a quick lesson in the Desert Eagle's action:
The tealish barrel assembly is fixed to the brown frame. There is a thin passage through the barrel assembly all the way to the end, which allows gases produced by a cartridge's ignition to push back a piston, green. |
One point you left out, look at the position of the spring in the magazine. It's toward the front with the bullets above the follower angled slightly to the sides and with the front tilted up. Even with the gas system functioning perfectly, the uneven pressure and staggering of the large cartridges necessary to cram such large rounds into a usable grip cause an awkward angle of the cartridge into the feed ramp, which frequently (I have seen several firsthand accounts of 1 in 5 shots jamming, and one report of every other shot jamming) causes failure to feed jams.
The gas system is quickly fouled by the faster-burning powders used in pistol cartridges, preventing the slide from recoiling fully and exacerbating the problem by narrowing the time and space constraints in which the next round must be loaded into the chamber.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
The point the TK is I think missing is that I didnt talk of power in some abstract scientific sense, I spoke of it in terms in which it was materially comprehensible as defined by the usage of a hand gun.
Now, if a Desert E has 1500 lbs/foot power and the Swith and Weston X Framce has 3000 lbs/foot -we can all see that 3000 is a bigger number than 1500. I propose that I might bring into the equation a rifle that is designed for shooting elephants that perhaps has 4500 lbs/foot power
But in terms of the real situation that a handgun would be used in, 1500 lbs/foot is above the maximum power that a handgun can affectly harness in usage. The gun with 3000 lbs/foot simply wastes 1500 lbs of power because it will never perform any function which would not be done equally as well by 1500.
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From where do you draw your conclusion that a handgun can not harness any power over 1500 foot pounds?