Hamster’s guide to the (sort of) science of pew pewing!

[Crazy_Crystal]

certainly possible, never needed to use more than just some kentucky windage myself.

there is a bunch of guys did do more in-depth analysis including elevation angles.

guess the main problem would be calibrating it to the amount of hop you're running.

I guess it's mostly my desire to be able to map the flight path to be able to engage people at around the 100m mark plus... which is only possible when you start lobbing the BBs...

calibration is where range cards come in and you just have to apply empirical data..tbh once you have set the hop once and you have a very consistent FPS you stand a chance...

it's this side of things that really interests me tbh so I'll stick the equation up once I'm happy with it and see what happens.

 

[Adolf Hamster]

I guess it's mostly my desire to be able to map the flight path to be able to engage people at around the 100m mark plus... which is only possible when you start lobbing the BBs...

calibration is where range cards come in and you just have to apply empirical data..tbh once you have set the hop once and you have a very consistent FPS you stand a chance...

it's this side of things that really interests me tbh so I'll stick the equation up once I'm happy with it and see what happens.

fair enough, i suppose at least it shouldn't be too bad to factor in for example cross-wind same as for regular ballistics, you're essentially using the same drag force equation only applied crossways. headwind you could add in as an increase/decrease in bb velocity.

in the spreadsheet i'm using an arbitrary value for the spin, the "reset hop" button just uses a goal-seek to find the value that gives you ~20cm of muzzle rise for the given bb weight/energy setting (because i had no idea what the actual rate of spin was), but there's no reason you can't set it for some other value.