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Shooting in the Rain?
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<blockquote data-quote="beezaur" data-source="post: 87148" data-attributes="member: 4606"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p></p><p>Was it the first shot from a clean bore?</p><p></p><p>JB </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p></p><p>Doh! That was it. Color me stupid.</p><p></p><p>Actually It was the first time I cleaned a bore in years after being busy with other things like school and then work. I guess I'm a little rusty. Oops.</p><p></p><p>The lack of effect actually makes sense to me. If you figure time of flight on a long shot is something like one second, then the bullet would have to hit a raindrop during that time in order for the rain to have any effect at all. Otherwise the bullet is just flying through damp air, which is known to not be a problem.</p><p></p><p>You could get a rough idea of the probability of the bullet hitting a drop by exposing something like a piece of paper to the rain in question for a time equal to the time of flight. So you expose your paper for one second or so, and you only get a few drops on the paper. The probability that the bullet will hit a drop is almost the same as the probability that a bullet-diameter circle drawn randomly on that paper will touch a raindrop. Pretty slim odds.</p><p></p><p>I would still think if the bullet did hit a drop there would be some deflection, especially if the hit was early on in flight. There has to be a major impulse from turning whatever mass a raindrop is into vapor.</p><p></p><p>Scott</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beezaur, post: 87148, member: 4606"] [ QUOTE ] Was it the first shot from a clean bore? JB [/ QUOTE ] Doh! That was it. Color me stupid. Actually It was the first time I cleaned a bore in years after being busy with other things like school and then work. I guess I'm a little rusty. Oops. The lack of effect actually makes sense to me. If you figure time of flight on a long shot is something like one second, then the bullet would have to hit a raindrop during that time in order for the rain to have any effect at all. Otherwise the bullet is just flying through damp air, which is known to not be a problem. You could get a rough idea of the probability of the bullet hitting a drop by exposing something like a piece of paper to the rain in question for a time equal to the time of flight. So you expose your paper for one second or so, and you only get a few drops on the paper. The probability that the bullet will hit a drop is almost the same as the probability that a bullet-diameter circle drawn randomly on that paper will touch a raindrop. Pretty slim odds. I would still think if the bullet did hit a drop there would be some deflection, especially if the hit was early on in flight. There has to be a major impulse from turning whatever mass a raindrop is into vapor. Scott [/QUOTE]
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