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- DictionaryRe·coil
verb
- 1. suddenly spring or flinch back in fear, horror, or disgust: "he recoiled in horror"
noun
- 1. the action of recoiling: "his body jerked with the recoil of the rifle"
5 days ago · adjective. of or being a weapon that is designed to minimize recoil.
2 days ago · Newton's first law expresses the principle of inertia: the natural behavior of a body is to move in a straight line at constant speed. A body's motion preserves the status quo, but external forces can perturb this. The modern understanding of Newton's first law is that no inertial observer is privileged over any other.
4 days ago · Artillery, in military science, crew-served big guns, howitzers, or mortars having a caliber greater than that of small arms, or infantry weapons. The term is more properly limited to large gun-type weapons using an exploding propellant charge to shoot a projectile along an unpowered trajectory.
1 day ago · Control your breathing, get a precise range, and get a solid rest, be it prone or on shooting sticks. Don’t pull the trigger until the crosshairs are rock steady.”. Shooter: Alex Wampler. Position: Browning Pro Staff. Alex has been a professional sporting clay shooter since 2013 and has multiple titles to her credit.
5 days ago · Despite their obvious advantages, the AK-47 and the AKM were considered by the Soviet military to have problems with accuracy, mainly because of recoil forces generated by the powerful 7.62-mm round and other forces known as blowback that were generated by the weapons’ heavy internal mechanisms.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · The Bear Pit. Sniper’s Hide is a community of Snipers of all kinds, focusing on long range shooting, accuracy, and ballistics. Founded by Frank Galli in 2000, Sniper’s Hide has been offering informational videos, podcasts, and other support to its users in one location. Forum Statistics. Threads.
2 days ago · Today, we recoil from the word “United”. Today, we are on loan to Manchester City, black and white and black and blue (in more ways than one, it turns out).We share an antipathy for Manchester ...
