To: Attention Surplus Disorder
I believe that it should be inches and not feet.
20 posted on
08/04/2006 12:27:48 PM PDT by
Deguello
To: Deguello
Inches, I could readily believe. Feet? Wow!
To: Deguello
No, that's feet.
Remember -- a bullet that travels 900 yards drops so far during its flight that it's going to follow a trajectory not all that much different than an artillery piece, arching quite a bit as it drops under the influence of gravity.
31 posted on
08/04/2006 12:31:16 PM PDT by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: Deguello
I believe that it should be inches and not feet.
Maybe not. I think they said a 900 yd shot. That's 2700 feet. If the bullet velocity were 2700 ft/s, then that's a full second of flight time. Gravitational acceleration is 32 ft/s2, which would give in round numbers a 32 ft drop. Incredible!
64 posted on
08/04/2006 1:08:58 PM PDT by
NonLinear
(He's dead, Jim)
To: Deguello
I believe you are right. The field of view of the scope is not that large at 900 yards.
... but I have been wrong before.
68 posted on
08/04/2006 1:14:47 PM PDT by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitor)
To: Deguello
Or may centimeters centimetres.
107 posted on
08/04/2006 3:52:04 PM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
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