Like to play with guns? So do I. Check out this cool program I wrote for myself some years ago, and recently updated.
This free program will calculate and print out for you many external and terminal ballistics functions.
Just enter your values in the fields and select CALCULATE.
The picture below says it all with one of my pet .454 Casull handloads. It is interesting to compare with a major league baseball pitch.
For a baseball at 5.125 oz, travelling 90 mph, the momentum is 42 and kinetic energy is 87. You see the .454 Casull load has way more
kinetic energy and almost twice the momentum - which is most directly related to recoil.
Shooting this thing is like catching a baseball without a mit - extreme fun.
( Click on the picture to get the program )
Great for comparing loads - and you can print out the results and data to a file on hard disk; print hardcopy also.
It also has a useful millimeter-to-inches (caliber) conversion for bullets.
Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good airplane? Uhh ... cause like, the door's open?
Not all computer nerds are wimpy dorks - some have adrenaline lust too (but not many I think).
Another little toy I wrote for myself and friends at the DZ back in PA around the turn of the century.
( Click on the picture to get the program )
If jumping out of airplanes is too scary and you don't like the idea of looking up hotel deals and staying in cheap hotels
or going camping again this summer, you might consider poking around shipwrecks about 200 feet under the North Atlantic.
While diving might be an expensive hobby, it is also an exciting and truly rewarding experience.
I haven't been in the water since I moved to Colorado about 6 years ago (too long a drive to the shore from here), but I hope
to get back in some day.
This program will be convenient if you do tech-diving and have advanced (NITROX) certifications; if you don't it will not be of much use.
Look at the picture and decide if you want it, it should be self-explanatory.
Then click on the picture to get the program.
