Measuring Recoil

[highpower790]

This morning at a match a fellow shooter mentioned that he may have detached retinas from shooting large caliber rifles.I can think of a couple top fuel dragster drivers that stopped driving because of detached retinas due to the forces of the launch at +4g ,to -11g when chutes are deployed.
Is there a way to measure such forces for the shooter?Maybe a pressure sensitive gauge placed in the shoulder?

[Fjold]

There are numerous methods of calculating recoil from rifles but most don't take into account stock shape and position of the shooter and how they affect felt recoil.

https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=At.MAF8ZiAsUz7I10lhiR8ObvZx4?fr=yfp-t-412-s&toggle=1&fp=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=calculating%20rifle%20recoil%20table

[highpower790]

Intersting numbers from JBM.I saw that a 168gr 30cal projectile with a velocity 2750fps recoils at the rate of 8.8fps and 13fp.

[M1NM]

http://handloads.com/calc/recoil.asp

[LynnJr]

You can strap any rifle to a pendulum and record its travel distance caused by force.
They are cheap and easy to make.

[russ69]

http://handloads.com/calc/recoil.asp

Good link. There are a few different ways to calculate recoil energy. All methods are good enough to get an idea how much energy you will have to deal with. The final test is to shoot the gun and see how it feels.

[RNE228]

An accelerometer and a USB DAQ hooked to a PC. I've done drop tests and shock(drop table) tests at work. We use a fancier setup, but those items would work.

https://www.google.com/#q=usb+accelerometer+data+logger