Originally Posted by supercrewd
Not to get into a pissing match but if you spin a gyroscope as fast as you can you will see it go to sleep shortly after starting it. Not too hard to extrapolate that to something spinning 180,000 rpms.


We all agree on the behavior of a gyroscope or a spinning top. The question is, assuming similar precession/nautation action for a bullet, would the bullet actually fly in a way that allowed it to shoot smaller (MOA) groups at long range compared to short range?

There's a difference between rotational motion and trajectory/path. How much the precession/nautation translates into path deflection is calculated to be very small (like 1/10th of a caliber). And so far, all efforts to observe this effect with live fire have shown linear growth of groups with range.

-Bryan