TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental measurement of rifle dynamics during the range shooting of biathlon weapons
AU - Koptyug, Andrey
AU - Ainegren, Mats
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
Copyright:
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Some of the shooting training that biathletes implements takes place indoors, even in hotel rooms or at home, through so-called "dry firing" training. It involves imitating shooting at a target with real rifle but without ammunition, when the result is evaluated by various electronic devices counting the number of virtual hits. But dry firing cannot adequately represent real shooting, as it does not produce any rifle recoil, which significantly limits its value for the training. To reach a higher realism of the dry firing training a system mimicking the weapon recoil is therefore needed. Present research aims to overcome an existing lack of data on the dynamics of small caliber rifles recoil dynamics. Present paper describes first measurement results acquired in the controlled environment of the shooting range. Two types of experiments were carried out with firing freely suspended rifle and when backed with the force measurement device (load cell). Average recoil peak force values were reaching 5 kg, rising from zero for about 10-15 ms and keeping altogether for about 30-40 ms. Corresponding energy going into the recoil motion of the rifle is found to be about 390 J. The measured values provide an adequate input for designing the devices mimicking the biathlon weapon recoil in dry firing training.
AB - Some of the shooting training that biathletes implements takes place indoors, even in hotel rooms or at home, through so-called "dry firing" training. It involves imitating shooting at a target with real rifle but without ammunition, when the result is evaluated by various electronic devices counting the number of virtual hits. But dry firing cannot adequately represent real shooting, as it does not produce any rifle recoil, which significantly limits its value for the training. To reach a higher realism of the dry firing training a system mimicking the weapon recoil is therefore needed. Present research aims to overcome an existing lack of data on the dynamics of small caliber rifles recoil dynamics. Present paper describes first measurement results acquired in the controlled environment of the shooting range. Two types of experiments were carried out with firing freely suspended rifle and when backed with the force measurement device (load cell). Average recoil peak force values were reaching 5 kg, rising from zero for about 10-15 ms and keeping altogether for about 30-40 ms. Corresponding energy going into the recoil motion of the rifle is found to be about 390 J. The measured values provide an adequate input for designing the devices mimicking the biathlon weapon recoil in dry firing training.
KW - Athlete training
KW - Biathlon
KW - Dry firing
KW - Gun recoil
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U2 - 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.07.261
DO - 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.07.261
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84945557467
VL - 112
SP - 349
EP - 354
JO - Procedia Engineering
JF - Procedia Engineering
SN - 1877-7058
T2 - 7th Asia-Pacific Congress on Sports Technology, APCST 2015
Y2 - 23 September 2015 through 25 September 2015
ER -