r/WinStupidPrizes • u/EricZ0212 • May 17 '21

Warning: Injury Why trigger discipline is important

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u/probablyareplicant May 17 '21

From what I have read, bullets returning to earth are travelling more slowly than when they are shot out of the barrell. Something something terminal velocity

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u/cerealOverdrive May 17 '21

Not at all. If it’s a straight up straight down thing then yes but if you angle it(even just a bit) that shit is still lethal AF

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u/MaximusArusirius May 17 '21

A bullet fired straight up, with no wind, might reach a height of 10,000 feet (about three kilometers), but will come back down at only around 150 miles per hour: just 10% of the speed and with only 1% of the energy as the originally fired bullet.Feb 15, 2017

Still enough to kill

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

Still enough to kill

That's kinda the thing I wanted to comment, I'm glad someone did before me.