skipping 88mm stones

[Keelbuster]

Originally Posted by Brag

The shape of the shell is not for skipping.

My intuition is that the reason you need a flat stone in order to get a skip is that you are throwing it relatively slow. I imagine that if you fired a round stone fast enough, it would bounce. It would also seem to depend on the angle of impact. But at certain speeds, the water just won't part for an object - like when a person falls out of a plane and hits the water, they bounce, even though they hit near perpendicular. I figure that with shells travelling so damn fast, and with angles so small, they would often bounce. Some seadog here must have fired a deck gun, and knows the answer....