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		biot on Feb 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Firing Squad Problem While you may not know if your rifle has a blank, you'll definitely know if your rifle fired a blank due to the different force in recoil because you're accelerating the mass of gunpowder+lead vs gunpowder alone.

CamperBob2 on Feb 8, 2014 [–]

Not sure how true that is. How much recoil force is contributed by the bullet versus the gas that propels it?

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