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Old September 19, 2005, 12:49 PM   #14
leadcounsel
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I think Tim is onto something with this, so I'll pick the ball up and run with it.

In the line of site that he described, lets say there is water at SOME point along this imaginary tube at all times. Given that bullets travel faster than the speed of sound and reach your target almost instantaneously, barring anything like and air pocket around the bullet it will collide with water at some point in its path.

However, given that the bullet is traveling at 900+ fps with hundreds of foot pounds of pressure, my intuition says that a single water droplet won't affect the bullet's trajectory. Now, raining cats and dogs might affect it....

I have a somewhat related wonder?

Remember in the twilight zone episode with the creature on the wing? If you shot a bullet out a plane window, perpendicular to the directon of the wind, at a target on the wing of the plane, would your bullet travel true to your aim or would it be affected by the wind and be completely blown off course?
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