Jeff Siewert
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I don't think they, they can't fire 60s.
The twist is too slow.
Yeah, so what happens with the boat tail is the boat tail kills the lift on the back end of the bullet aft of the center of mass.
So when that happens, what it does is it pushes the normal force center of pressure forward, which makes CM alpha lower.
a bigger number, which drives the stability.
Okay.
Okay.
So that's why that happens.
Okay.
So if you, if you, if you tried the bullet, it could be same mass bullet, but without a boat tail, you might, you might have, I just found that, uh, the bullets are just too long.
If it's all you had, yeah, go ahead and use it.
But it's not anything I've ever used professionally.
Let's put it that way.
Okay.
And I studied it briefly for inclusion in my book and promptly forgot most of what was in it.
I love it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Let's go to the next slide because we've got a little more information.
Okay.