We do experiment

[clint 45]

We do experiment. I put tin can 100-200-300-600 meter in floor, we test with friend which hit firs.

I shoot 303 round firs to 100 then 200, then 300 & 600 after. You here bullet hit can.

also we put metal plate on floor.

 

we together , my friend drop 303 bullet head on to tin, from 2 metre up, I same time as he let go, i pull trigga & shoot all tin at diffren distant.

 

which hit firs ,you think ?

[Dan Newcombe 58]

Depends on your shootnig position relative to the target.

 

If you were shooting dead level then the two bullets would hit the floor at the same time in theory.

 

However, to get out to the ranges described you have to 'loop' the bullet, meaning point the muzzle it slightly up. This would mean that the dropped round would hit the floor first.

 

If you are shooting at a can on the floor from a standing position / elevated then the fired round would probably (dependant on the trajectory) hit the floor first as it is being driven along faster than gravity will accelerate something that is dropped

 

Dan

[activeviii 8]

plus you need to add in to the equation that you not next to the tin being shot at and if you are then you shouldn't be so what you have to add is the time it take for the sound, of the bullet hitting the tin can, to come back to your ears. this adding more time.

 

 

 

Phil

[Deker 3,491]

It's the old chestnut, perhaps someone will actually do it one day, but there are still a lot of variables and it would be very diffifult to prove experimentally.

 

Things like, air temperature/density, thermals, wind direction/gusts, earth curvature, etc etc!!

[RicW 67]

Yeah, it's a "thought experiment." If you aligned the rifle exactly horizontal and arranged for the free bullet to drop at the exact moment the fired round left the muzzle, perhaps by arranging for the fired bullet to cut a photoelectric beam to release the free bullet, and carried the whole experiment out in a vacuum so aerodynamic effects would not affect the result, then the two bullets would hit the ground at the same moment. What I find interesting here is the number of people who think that heavy bullets fall faster, ie have more loopy trajectories, than light bullets. Wrong!

 

Ric

[Dan Newcombe 58]

Heavy bullets dont fall faster but they are closer to the muzzle when they fall because they are generally travelling slower.

 

Compare a .22-250 and a .222.

 

Same bullet weight different speeds and the .222 will hit the floor closer than the .22-250 giving the impression it has dropped quicker.

 

I think i once saw the experiment dont on TV with a piantball gun quite a few years ago and it worked.

 

Dan

[RicW 67]

Heavy bullets dont fall faster but they are closer to the muzzle when they fall because they are generally travelling slower.

Compare a .22-250 and a .222.

 

Same bullet weight different speeds and the .222 will hit the floor closer than the .22-250 giving the impression it has dropped quicker.

 

I think i once saw the experiment dont on TV with a piantball gun quite a few years ago and it worked.

 

Dan

 

Right on. It's velocity that is the critical factor

Edited March 23, 2010 by RicW

[clint 45]

We discuss all this in the bar one afternoon, in the end was to do ,this experiment.

After we count 1-2-3,i squeese trigger on 303 to 100metre, tin on hill ground, my friend drop 174gr bullet. Each time wed do 200,300 & 600 metre we hear 'plonk' hit tin same time. I say gravity is magnetic, it make no diffrance if 100 metre or kilometre, all fall to ground same time, any distans.You try