Re: Bullet fired into air...

"John P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Yardpilot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in a message
>
> > No, one cannot, unless one accepts the premise as fact. In that case,
one
> > will be wrong.
> > http://www.loadammo.com/Topics/March01.htm
>
> Your link seems to support my comment. (which was to imply that a bullet
> fired straight up could not cause a "critical wound", as the original
story
> claims)


I believe there are too many variables to say definitively whether a bullet
falling from the sky could cause a lethal wound or not.  The 150-grain
bullet used in that test almost certainly would not; however, I would not be
willing to say the same thing for a 230-grain bullet fired straight into the
air from a .45, provided that the round got high enough that it reached its
terminal velocity on the way back down.

Point is, there's no blanket answer to the question.