Re: New Life for Millennium's End

[CamaroGen1@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 4/10/01 4:09:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
rjhansen@inav.net writes:


> More than 30cm for a 1200m shot.  Muzzle velocity of a .50 fired from a
> Barrett is 854m/s.  That means at 1200m it's been in flight for one and a
> half seconds.  According to physics, it'll drop by one-half the force of
> gravity multiplied by the square of the time it's in freefall--or,
> (.5)*(9.8)*(1.5)*(1.5).  Do the math; gravity will drop the bullet by about
> eleven /meters/.  On top of that, with a flight time of one and a half
> seconds, your target's likely not going to be in the same position as he was
> when you took the shot.
>
> Now, bullet ballistics may offset this slightly by lifting the bullet in
> mid-trajectory.  You're still going to be looking at in the neighborhood of
> a ten-meter bullet drop, though, and a one-and-a-half second flight time.
>
> (Note that I don't have any authoritative numbers on muzzle velocity; most
> that I've seen list 850-870m/s, and one as high as 916m/s.)



Thank you, you helped prove my point=) again, i am guilty of oversimplifing ( 
i dind't feel like showing the equation)  point is, if players are making 
EXTREMELY aqurate shots from that distance, then I am sorry, you are not 
doing a very good job.  if you give all the positives, you must give the 
negitives also.


Benjamin