WB>In a message to Greer Braxtle  David R. Norton wrote:
WB>>    I don't think a bullet will go high enough to fall far enough to
WB>>   reach
WB>>    terminal velocity, if it did the calculations would be real easy,
WB>>    wouldn't they!
WB>  You must not have read the label on the .22 rounds you've been firing. 
The
WB>average .22 round has a range of over one and half miles.  Thus if you 
ere
WB>standing say half a mile from a park, school yard, etc.. and fired into 
he
WB>then yes the bullet could travel far enough and fast enough to still 
serious
WB>injure or kill a person if they were struck by it.  Which happens to be 
just
WB>what did occur some twenty years ago here in my home town.
But that would be at a launch angle of about 30 degrees (which is the
lanuch angle for maximum range for small arms -- in the atmosphere) or
less, so there would still be a considerable horizontal component to the
velocity.
I suspect that a .22 bullet falling straight down would be less
dangerous.  But note that I don't claim that there would be NO danger.
:-)
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