[Dead Corpse]

3000 fps does not come anywhere close to equally 2500 mph.

This lying lunatic is why good people some times go to jail...

[NVDave]

To get FPS from MPH, multiply by 1.47. It isn’t as exact as we engineers can bore people with, given a minute and a calculator, but it gets you pretty darn close.

And the result: 3000 fps is 2040.8 MPH.

[El Gato]

3000 fps does not come anywhere close to equally 2500 mph.

Actually it does. 3000 ft/sec * 3600 sec/hour * 1/5280 miles/ft = 2045 miles/hour.

But otherwise he's an idiot, throwing around both a lot of monkey pooh, and some scary sounding numbers.

None of which has much to do with whether the guy deliberately or accidentally shot his girlfriend. Just looking at him, I'd say Guilty as Hell.

early story here) But that's a matter for the jury to decide. They apparently agreed with my assessment They gave him life. I'd have been a bit more severe, except that apparently that was the max sentence given the charges.

I imagine the neighbors were glad it wasn't really an elephant gun.

[shibumi]

Gee, I’ve got a .243 Winchester bolt action that has a trigger guard AND a measurable trigger pull AND a scope.

I’m gonna go get me some Hefalumps, Rindosoreasses and Bars!

(Got me 3900 FPS!)

I never realized it was the kind of rifle I would use to actually *hit* something!