Re: Bullet fired into air...

"John P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Karl Hungus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in a message
>
> > The 9mm bullet if found in the street on New Year's Day of '91 (and
which
> > had landed a very short distance from me the night before) had a nicely
> > flattened nose.  That takes velocity.
>
> If the bullet had been shot *straight* up, the shooter would have to have
> been standing next to you. Was he?


The only place from which it was likely fired was a small village next to
our depot.  That was a few hundred yards away, and was the direction from
which we had heard gunshots.  The fact that the bullet was found only a few
feet from where it impacted indicates that while its path up may not have
been perfectly straight, its return path was--or at least very nearly so.