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I want to know how far they travel. Like if you're out in the middle of the dessert, nothing around for hundreds of miles.......no trees, no cities, just open air seemingly forever.
How long until the bullet just runs out of momentum? And there MUST be a point where it's still technically traveling, but with so little momentum that if it hits a body it would just not even penetrate. Just kind of hits a person, and falls to the floor. It's probably several miles, but that point HAS to exist SOMEWHERE, right?
Yeah, there's math for it.
It depends on the firearm and the round itself, and there's some uncertainty based on the exact powder load, but that wouldn't change things enough to matter.
I'm not willing to spend time looking it up, but I've seen a table of comparisons between common rounds' lethality at given ranges based on set conditions. There's always a point where lethality drops to zero, and it's before the maximum flight distance.
And next to zero chance that these ~~drink~~ edit: drunk numbsculls would have worked it out before their stunt with one another:-).
Pretty much lol
Beer math is bad math