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To: org.whodat
True but it really depends on your position on the arc. If you were close to the end of the arc you could, theoretically, catch the bullet in your hand since it's speed is approaching zero.

Or in your teeth. You look much cooler that way.

Only under ideal circumstances; a bullet will almost always be pulled to the ground by gravity long before it slows down that much, assuming that it doesn't hit anything else along the way.

As I posted elsewhere on the thread, "one in a million" does not mean impossible. Fire millions of rounds into the air, and "one in a million," its statistical validity aside, isn't a measure of whether something will happen, but how often.

64 posted on 08/05/2007 9:56:23 AM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: ReignOfError

How low of a degee do you claim you can shoot a gun and catch a bullet in your hand without injury?


72 posted on 08/05/2007 10:39:41 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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