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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:11:45 PM EDT
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Arab wedding near by?
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:11:54 PM EDT
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If I remember correctly the myth busters said falling bullets wouldn’t be lethal because the terminal velocity of gravity would slow down a bullet but now I disagree. He lives in Atlanta and was asleep. A rifle round (looks like 5.56) came vertically down through his roof and put a good dent in his hardwood floor. PSA - I’m sure we all know this by now.... don’t fire into the air! |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:12:00 PM EDT
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If I remember correctly the myth busters said falling bullets wouldn’t be lethal because the terminal velocity of gravity would slow down a bullet but now I disagree. He lives in Atlanta and was asleep. A rifle round (looks like 5.56) came vertically down through his roof and put a good dent in his hardwood floor. PSA - I’m sure we all know this by now.... don’t fire into the air! |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:12:07 PM EDT
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Space Force!
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:12:18 PM EDT
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Problem is no one fires them off at 90*
When your arc them they go a long way and still fuck stuff up |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:12:29 PM EDT
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That sucks. I guess it could have been worse, and someone in his family could have been injured. I really hate the fools that do that shit.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:12:43 PM EDT
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Someone firing in the air most likely didn’t fire it perfectly straight up...despite what it looks like from one hole.
OP = scienze failure |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:14:22 PM EDT
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There was some idiot down the road doing a mag dump last night. What a waste of good ammunition.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:15:08 PM EDT
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I heard shooting for hours (off and on) last night.
And I worried that something like that would happen. Mostly I fear rounds coming through the windows. I don't think party goes with guns think about their backstops. 
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:15:47 PM EDT
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Had a LT in Iraq have a round come in and take out his DVD player in his mobile trailer.
My buddy in the next trailer over had a round come into the side of his trailer and poke halfway through. The trajectory of it put it right into his pillow had it kept going. 
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:19:23 PM EDT
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It's very unlikely that the bullet was falling, in spite of how it appears.
Hatcher calculated that his .30-caliber rifle bullets reached terminal velocity—the speed at which air resistance balances the accelerating force of gravity—at 300 feet per second. You might die from a bullet moving at that speed, but it’s unlikely. Lighter bullets, like those fired from a 9mm handgun, max out at even lower speeds, between 150 and 250 feet per second, according to computer models. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:21:02 PM EDT
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What goes up must come down. Simple physics!
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:21:33 PM EDT
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LoL, no. Science.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:23:47 PM EDT
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Problem is no one fires them off at 90* 
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:26:13 PM EDT
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Arab wedding near by? |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:26:17 PM EDT
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A guy walking downtown here had a bullet fired from somewhere far away hit a cellphone in his shirt pocket and destroy it
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:26:59 PM EDT
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Had a LT in Iraq have a round come in and take out his DVD player in his mobile trailer. My buddy in the next trailer over had a round come into the side of his trailer and poke halfway through. The trajectory of it put it right into his pillow had it kept going. I might have a 7.62 round somewhere that landed at the Provincial Gov't Center due to 'happy fire.' |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:27:52 PM EDT
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My buddy had 1 come thru his car windshield last night
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:28:31 PM EDT
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Damn!
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:29:21 PM EDT
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Scary; glad he's ok.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:29:32 PM EDT
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I should buy a black powder ball pistol for holiday celebrations
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:30:23 PM EDT
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I was cleaning the gutters a few years ago and there was a 9mm bullet buried half in the shingles. Crazy stuff.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:30:48 PM EDT
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Wouldn't that be 7.62 ? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Arab wedding near by? |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:32:00 PM EDT
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Use a long thin dowel rod or even string to connect the ceiling and roof holes to see the actual angle of entry.
At long distances bullets are dropping fast. Use a ballistic calculator set to 10 yard increments and see the drop rate. At 1000 yards StrelokPro says my 80 grain Sierra Match King is still doing over 1000 fps but dropping about 10 inches for every 10 yards. At 1500 yards it’s doing 850 fps and dropping over 30 inches every 10 yards. Someone else can calculate the angle of those drops. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:39:05 PM EDT
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Was a less than vertical flight path. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If I remember correctly the myth busters said falling bullets wouldn’t be lethal because the terminal velocity of gravity would slow down a bullet but now I disagree. He lives in Atlanta and was asleep. A rifle round (looks like 5.56) came vertically down through his roof and put a good dent in his hardwood floor. PSA - I’m sure we all know this by now.... don’t fire into the air! |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:41:27 PM EDT
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Use a long thin dowel rod or even string to connect the ceiling and roof holes to see the actual angle of entry. At long distances bullets are dropping fast. Use a ballistic calculator set to 10 yard increments and see the drop rate. At 1000 yards StrelokPro says my 80 grain Sierra Match King is still doing over 1000 fps but dropping about 10 inches for every 10 yards. At 1500 yards it’s doing 850 fps and dropping over 30 inches every 10 yards. Someone else can calculate the angle of those drops. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:45:19 PM EDT
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Use a long thin dowel rod or even string to connect the ceiling and roof holes to see the actual angle of entry. At long distances bullets are dropping fast. Use a ballistic calculator set to 10 yard increments and see the drop rate. At 1000 yards StrelokPro says my 80 grain Sierra Match King is still doing over 1000 fps but dropping about 10 inches for every 10 yards. At 1500 yards it’s doing 850 fps and dropping over 30 inches every 10 yards. Someone else can calculate the angle of those drops. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:46:49 PM EDT
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Al Taqaddam, by any chance? The Iraqi Security Forces would roll up to the side of the road and mag dump AKs toward the base ALL THE TIME. I might have a 7.62 round somewhere that landed at the Provincial Gov't Center due to 'happy fire.' Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Had a LT in Iraq have a round come in and take out his DVD player in his mobile trailer. My buddy in the next trailer over had a round come into the side of his trailer and poke halfway through. The trajectory of it put it right into his pillow had it kept going. I might have a 7.62 round somewhere that landed at the Provincial Gov't Center due to 'happy fire.'  
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:47:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not necessarily we hand out M4s/M16s like candy |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:48:15 PM EDT
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LoL, no. Science. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:49:33 PM EDT
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We used to live in an area that sounded like a war-zone from ~11:45-12:15. Now that we're in the 'burbs, all was relatively quiet. However, I imagine we're now in the beaten zone from idiots in the city. The thought crossed my mind of putting my ACH on our daughter.
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There was some idiot down the road doing a mag dump last night. What a waste of good ammunition. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:49:53 PM EDT
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The bullet has to have maintained trajectory. A bullet free falling is tumbling and will not hurt anything.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:50:31 PM EDT
[#33]
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If I remember correctly the myth busters said falling bullets wouldn’t be lethal because the terminal velocity of gravity would slow down a bullet but now I disagree. Most fools shooting are shooting off at angles less than 90 degrees. * except when shooting from a tread mill |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:50:42 PM EDT
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Brother is a Sheriff Deputy at an airport in FL. Couple years ago he came out and found a bullet hole in the hood of his police car after new years. It went through the sheet metal and stopped by the hood frame. It definitely came from someone firing into the air but what angle, no idea. It had to be filled and repainted.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:51:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:55:33 PM EDT
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I’ll tell him to do this, I’ve only seen pictures but it looks like it came in literally vertical. Through a roof and attic Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Use a long thin dowel rod or even string to connect the ceiling and roof holes to see the actual angle of entry. At long distances bullets are dropping fast. Use a ballistic calculator set to 10 yard increments and see the drop rate. At 1000 yards StrelokPro says my 80 grain Sierra Match King is still doing over 1000 fps but dropping about 10 inches for every 10 yards. At 1500 yards it’s doing 850 fps and dropping over 30 inches every 10 yards. Someone else can calculate the angle of those drops. The Sierra Match King in my example is an extremely efficient .224 bullet. Any handgun bullet and most rifle bullets idiots would fire into the air would be dropping way faster much closer to the muzzle. Here's an image of what a bullet's trajectory really looks like. It starts out on a steady upward slanted angle but once it starts dropping the angle of drop increases significantly the further out it goes. 
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:56:17 PM EDT
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Nope.
A falling 62 gr (assumed) bullet will not penetrate shingles/metal, roofing felt, decking, insulation in the attic, ceiling sheetrock and then leave a dent in a hardwood floor. Picture of the offending bullet? |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:57:37 PM EDT
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The bullet has to have maintained trajectory. A bullet free falling is tumbling and will not hurt anything. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:58:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Right I understand that but this came in so close to being vertical that it toes the line line. Anyways the point of this thread was to educate. I’m sure there’s members here who were shooting in the air last night |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:59:02 PM EDT
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Nope. A falling 62 gr (assumed) bullet will not penetrate shingles/metal, roofing felt, decking, insulation in the attic, ceiling sheetrock and then leave a dent in a hardwood floor. Picture of the offending bullet? |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 1:59:45 PM EDT
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If I remember correctly the myth busters said falling bullets wouldn’t be lethal because the terminal velocity of gravity would slow down a bullet but now I disagree. He lives in Atlanta and was asleep. A rifle round (looks like 5.56) came vertically down through his roof and put a good dent in his hardwood floor. PSA - I’m sure we all know this by now.... don’t fire into the air! |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:00:08 PM EDT
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Holllywood meets fucking ID10T's. Glad no one was injured from this bullet.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:00:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That’s what I thought. How do I host the pics ETA: In retrospect I know nothing about you. My apologies. If you would like help with this then PM me and I will help you out. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:01:06 PM EDT
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P.J. O'Rourke said when we liberated Kuwait there was a period of almost two weeks by order when you weren't allowed outside with a helmet and body armor because every Kuwaiti in the country was mag dumping into the air. If I recall, he said they had plenty of ammo, since they hadn't fired any of it at the Iraqis.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:02:47 PM EDT
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P.J. O'Rourke said when we liberated Kuwait there was a period of almost two weeks by order when you weren't allowed outside with a helmet and body armor because every Kuwaiti in the country was mag dumping into the air. If I recall, he said they had plenty of ammo, since they hadn't fired any of it at the Iraqis. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:04:00 PM EDT
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Right I understand that but this came in so close to being vertical that it toes the line line. Anyways the point of this thread was to educate. I’m sure there’s members here who were shooting in the air last night Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The bullet has to have maintained trajectory. A bullet free falling is tumbling and will not hurt anything. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:07:10 PM EDT
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Arab wedding near by?  Celebratory gunfire at Arab weddings |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:08:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Was a less than vertical flight path. If it went up and stopped then came back down. It would most likely not be dangerous. However, and arched trajectory will not allow the round to lose enough enough kinetic energy to render it less dangerous. Think in terms of A LOT of target hold over. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:08:43 PM EDT
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By chance Was the roofing a blue poly tarp.?
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:08:47 PM EDT
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I call total BS.
A fired bullet would never hit the roof tip first unless it was fired straight down. A bullet in a ballistic arc does not "Nose Over". The spin on the bullet keeps the bullet aligned to axis of the bore the entire flight, that is the whole point of the rifling. Bullets are not footballs. |
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