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Originally posted by Hawk:
lol....OK....First off, the bullet dropped from a height will hit the ground FAR before one shot out of a gun from the same height because of the extra force exerted on the bullet being shot.

Gravity works the same on all objects. IF the gun is fired while the barrel is parallel to the ground, both the bullet fired from the gun AND the bullet dropped from the same height WILL ABSOLUTELY hit the ground at the same time.

Without little "bullet wings," the fired bullet will NOT rise or gain lift. its forward thrust will propell it FAR FURTHER from the gun, but it will hit the ground when the dropped bullet does. This is one of the first things they teach you in a ballistics course and its simple 7th grade physics.
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