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    Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Well?




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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Quote Originally Posted by CaptGoodvibes View Post
    Well?




    10 or 12 gauge

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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    I'm hoping this is sarcastic question. Please don't, that shit has to come down somewhere, and it would suck to start the year by injuring or killing someone.
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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Quote Originally Posted by TFOGGuys View Post
    I'm hoping this is sarcastic question. Please don't, that shit has to come down somewhere, and it would suck to start the year by injuring or killing someone.
    Of course. I saw this thread title on another board and wondered just how funny the CSC replies would be. I expect much better here than what a bunch of guitar players can come up with.

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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    In that case: Anything that can hit North Korea
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    Gotta bust a cap out yo 9, DAWG!!!

    All da OG's gonna be blastin dat shit sidewayz too, fo realz!
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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Quote Originally Posted by TFOGGuys View Post
    In that case: Anything that can hit North Korea
    ICBM it is then!

    FWIW, if I had a chunk of land, I might fire off a few into a hay bale/hillside/sandpit. I'm just sayin'...
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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Quote Originally Posted by rforsythe View Post
    Gotta bust a cap out yo 9, DAWG!!!

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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    I'll be firing off my .38 special six shooter while blindfolded and spinning in circles.

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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    How fast would a bullet fall if shot in the air? Say a 9mm round.

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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    My neighbor used to fire his black powder rifle on New Years. Damn, that thing was loud as hell!

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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Quote Originally Posted by vort3xr6 View Post
    How fast would a bullet fall if shot in the air? Say a 9mm round.
    Assuming enough height is given to achieve it (fire up, not sideways), the bullet would reach whatever its terminal velocity is on the way back down. There would also be some horizontal velocity a la an arc that would determine where it landed, but the downward component would accelerate at the gravitational constant (give or take any anomalies in your area) until air resistance stopped further acceleration.

    What is that speed? I don't know. I've heard stories of falling bullets going through skulls and killing people, so it's bloody fast.
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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    A falling 9mm, without any arc because the shooter was awesome and calculated Earth rotation et al., could get to about 150 ft/s give or take some. Compared to muzzle velocity around 1,200 ft/s, terminal velocity is much much slower.

    But realistically, a bullet will be shot in an arc and a good portion of muzzle velocity would be reserved resulting in a faster bullet.
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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    I heard about a Denver woman and her daughter getting killed a few years ago by some yahoos who were shooting guns into the air and at traffic signals. The bullets traveled several blocks, went straight through the exterior wall of the house and killed the woman and her little girl as they sat at their dining room table.


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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    mythbusters did the bullet drop thing.
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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Quote Originally Posted by PsychoMike View Post
    mythbusters did the bullet drop thing.
    But they couldn't get it quite right because they were using bullets that hadn't been spun by the rifling of modern firearms.

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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    We all knew it was going to happen.

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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Dragon's Breath from a 12 gauge.

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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Arizona had to install sensors that could triangulate where the weapons were being fired from. Many people had died down here due guns being shot in the air. They had a huge media blitz to get people to stop.
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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dietrich_R1 View Post
    Arizona had to install sensors that could triangulate where the weapons were being fired from. Many people had died down here due guns being shot in the air. They had a huge media blitz to get people to stop.
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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Yup, my gun! My goal is to always shoot that thing every New Year; preferably all over her face
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    Re: Best gun to shoot in the air at midnight tonight?

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldog View Post
    Yup, my gun! My goal is to always shoot that thing every New Year; preferably all over her face
    Yup I fired off some blanks around midnight

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