Re: [Phys-l] Killed by a Falling Bullet? - Myth busters.

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

No one seems to have mentioned windage (I admit a BTW), so I have.

bc, taught while a DMS in ROTC.

David Willey wrote:

> Kilmer, Skip wrote:
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> > Wouldn't that depend on whether horizontal referred to the line of the barrel or the line across the sights?
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> The phrase used was "bullet fired horizontally", that seems to indicate 
> that it is the original direction of travel of the bullet, not the line 
> across the sights being referred to. The usual arrangement is that when 
> the line across the sights is horizontal, the barrel, and hence the 
> original direction of travel of the bullet, is inclined slightly upward,
> cheers,
> David
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> > If I remember from my shooting days, they aren't parallel...something about a sightin-in range.
> > sk
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
> > [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu]On Behalf Of David
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