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Also wind velocity would affect the bullet. In all the old movies the shooter would throw some dirt in the air to see which way the wind was blowing and adjust his aim.
Jim
A curious thing
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...what about centrigual force applied to the bullet?
MM is right if no centrifugal force or movement by the shooter by rotation.....or wind.
I was just messing with Mickey anyway.
Dennis is a bad influence on me.
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This may help to clear things up (or not!) See the sections about Trajectories and Drop of a Bullet.
Gravity Concepts and Applications
But bear in mind that air friction, humidity, temperature, wind, etc will have an effect on a bullet in flight. And also consider that most modern hunting rifles are deliberately sighted in to a specific range ... 100 yards, 200 yards, etc depending on the game one is hunting or the local terrain. As soon as a bullet leaves the muzzle it will begin to rise. Hunters might say their rifle shoots "two inches high at 100 yards and be dead on at 250 yards." The upward trajectory will negate the downward pull of gravity causing a dropped bullet to strike the ground sooner.
Just some good ol' boy Texas shoot 'em up info.
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that's the trouble with physics/applied maths, you're always supposing that things are ideal and perfect.
as we all know, real life is a lot more complicated than that...and it make the sums harder to do...
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So if you stood in the exact centre of a 250 yard carousel, spinning round at 25 RPM, and old Mr Aherne (from the Government Centre) stood at the edge, would you be able too kill him with a hunting rifle?:)
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all depends on what colour socks you were wearing...
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If you were stood in the exact centre you wouldn't be moving. Old Mr Aherne on the other hand would be travelling quite fast, he'd have to be tied to a pole.
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To hit a moving target one would have to compensate by employing a technique known as "leading the target". This is basically aiming for an imaginary point in front of the target so the trajectory of the bullet intersects the path of the moving target.
If someone was (hypothetically) faced with such a scenario I think they'd much prefer something developed by your country. It's called the STEN.
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