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Originally Posted by Texas Star
Also, he says that the bullet will drop between 10-15-20 meters. Really? Enough to throw one off of a man-sized target? The head of that target, more than very little?
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Maybe if you were using a precision rifle that'd be significant, but only very little with a handgun. I dusted off the high school physics part of my brain and came up with this:
Distance dropped = 1/2 * acceleration * time squared
So, lets assume an average velocity for the bullet's flight of 300m/s (about 1000 ft/s). That means the time of flight is the distance to the target divided by the velocity, or 20/300, which equals 0.067 seconds.
And, acceleration due to gravity is 9.81 m/second^2 (about 32 ft/s^2), so that means the vertical distance dropped is: 1/2 * 9.81 * 0.067 squared, which equals 0.022m, or 2.2cm, or j
ust a little less than an inch drop between 0 and 20m (about 22 yards) if I've done everything right.
You'd have to be a very good pistol shot for that to make a difference, but if anyone is I'd say the SAS certainly would be.