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    A good read on the study of ballistics is the Bullets Flight By Mann ABE books are a source copies can vary in price but he did conduct some very good experiments and photographed the results I have only graze read my copy but he lined up 200yds of either canvas/paper targets all lined up perfectly and fired a round from a mounted rifle to show the oscillations before it stabilized in flight pretty good book.

    Post script - also from memory again that the projie oscillated around its path of flight (Lets not forget he was doing this pre 1900) he had a cross on every one of those targets and it showed the bullets strikes differing along the longitudinal axis (not yaw) really a great read I must say he did all sorts of stuff with rounds.
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