DRN>DA>It is also possible due to the balance and shape of the bullet
DRN>DA>that it will fall base first, giving even more difference.
DRN>This is really getting crazy!  Here's how it works. A bullet fired 
straight
DRN>up will go up until gravity overcomes the upward momentum.  Then it 
tops.
DRN>Then it falls EXACTLY the same way it would fall if you carried it to 
hat
DRN>same height and dropped it.  How high the bullet goes can be calculated,
DRN>the rate of fall is easily calculated.  The important thing to remember 
s
DRN>this, once the bullet stops and begins to fall, you're dealing with a
DRN>plain, simple, falling object, the fact that it was shot from a gun has 
o
DRN>bearing on it, other than it will start falling from a higher elevation
DRN>than it would if you tried to throw it up into the sky.  If you dropped 
the
DRN>bullet from an airliner, it would start it's fall higher than a gun would
DRN>probably shoot it!
Don't lecture me, you Harley-riding Ruger-shooting rabbit-chasing
old fart.   I know all about gravity and terminal velocity.  I
done jumped from airplanes 289 times!  (And only a handful of
those jumps were from a "perfectly good" airplane!)
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