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14-08-2016, 19:01 #21
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14-08-2016, 19:50 #22
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15-08-2016, 07:15 #23
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Re: Armed passerby stops knife attack with warning shot
I think a bullet into the ground/tree is the best bet. You know what your target is then. Firing into the air - you don't even have a target and have no idea what's behind it.
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15-08-2016, 07:43 #24
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15-08-2016, 10:11 #25
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Re: Armed passerby stops knife attack with warning shot
Just for interest sake, at what speed does a bullet fall to the ground? I am sure the speed is the same no matter the caliber and weight of the bullet?
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15-08-2016, 10:14 #26
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15-08-2016, 10:24 #27
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Re: Armed passerby stops knife attack with warning shot
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15-08-2016, 10:25 #28
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Re: Armed passerby stops knife attack with warning shot
The problem is not the speed at which the bullet comes down, it's the speed at which it moves in a horizontal direction. Remember the issues at SWAT Shooting a few years ago?
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15-08-2016, 10:55 #29
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Re: Armed passerby stops knife attack with warning shot
Acceleration due to gravity stays the same regardless of weight (the 2 falling objects of relatively low height experiment).
Terminal velocity in the same medium how ever increases with weight, decreases with increase of area and turbulence, increases with reduction of drag coefficient.
Fired straight up with no cross wind bullets will reach 0m/s and tumble back to earth, smaller bullets like those from handgun is very unlikely to reach a velocity to be lethal bigger rifle bullets fall into that grey zone where it is possible to reach a lethal velocity. It is very likely however that a bullet fired into the air will be fired at enough of an angle of the vertical or cross winds push it so that the bullet crests retains some rotational stability and fall back to earth point first in which case almost all bullets will reach a lethal velocity.
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15-08-2016, 11:01 #30
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Re: Armed passerby stops knife attack with warning shot
I've read for 9mm bullets you can expect around 150-250 feet per second. Is that enough to be lethal? I do not know. I will rather shoot into the ground than in the air if the situation allows.
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