CZ 52 Article

[tf34mech]

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[skucera]

That's good information, and good history, but wow Google's translation of technical terms sure leaves a lot to be desired. I puzzled out most of it, but I'd never seen many of those words.  Words like "ranivost" are in common usage among hunters in the Czech Republic but the closest I can come to a translation is the notion of terminal energy or muzzle energy or hitting power.  The Czech writer seems to use long, windy strings of words to convey concepts we call "fouling" and "propellant gasses," and Google Translate was clueless about both technical uses of those phrases.  Of course, I'm lousy at figuring out Czech conjugations....

Thanks for posting this!  It was really cool reading.

Scott

[miguel]

This would be interesting for me to know how to translate "ranivost", because I did not found it in my vocabularies. This word is from "ranit" - to hurt or to wound. The meaning of the word "ranivost" is "wounding ability" of the bullet - how much damage can the bullet cause in the target body. Is there some english word for it?
In the article, this word was used as the description of 7.62 Tokarev - this bullet has a small diameter and high energy, so it penetrates target, but did not cause much damage in it.

[skucera]

"Wounding ability...."  I'll have to remember that.  I didn't recognize the base word, so I was going entirely off the context of other internet pages that used the word.  In the US, we use several phrases that connote that idea, like "stopping power" or "energy transfer" or the creation of a "wound channel," but there isn't a single word that I can think of that conveys "wounding ability."  Of course, someone will likely reply with the perfect word that we commonly use, especially among the hunters out there.

Scott

[Hayfield123]

tf34mech, nice post.   Thanks for sharing!