throw a bullet ?

[denobravo]

This is a question that I would like proven with empirical evidence.
SO... thanks for your guess in advance.
There have been times bird hunting and coyote hunting that it seems when you "swing" on a bird or running dog that the bullet attains lateral movement as well as its forward flight path.
Not wind, inertia created as a barrel is moved laterally when swinging on A TARGET.
Is the swing creating lateral movement or is it simply the flight path target itersection in a straight line. ???
So, "straight line" at point of exiting the muzzle
or "actually moving sideways" from the inertia ???
Looking for evidence

 

[Ackool]

They tried this a couple of years ago on myth busters and could not get a bullet to curve due to muzzle swing.

 

[Wedgy]

MythBusters Episode 123: Curving Bullets
Premier Date: June 10, 2009

A shooter can curve a bullet around an obstacle by swinging or flicking his or her arm. (Based on scenes from the movie Wanted.)
BUSTED
The Build Team first went to a shooting range and set up a target with a wooden obstacle halfway between themselves and the target. Grant, Tory, and Kari each attempted to imitate the movie characters and shoot a bullet from a handgun around the obstacle by swinging the gun in an arc as they shot. No one was able to accomplish the feat. To continue testing, the team created a robot that could swing a gun at superhuman speeds. They set up a row of five large planes of paper, each parallel to the others to help determine the bullets' paths. After each shot, they used a laser pointer to see if all five of the holes lined up. Even with the gun being swung by the robot, the bullet paths were completely straight. Finally, the team tried modifying the gun and bullets. With a de-rifled gun barrel and unbalanced bullets, the bullets tumbled through the air but still flew along a straight path.

 

[lancetkenyon]

A bullet at 3300fps leaves a 26" barrel in .0011 seconds. How fast do you think you can swing a barrel that would would move the muzzle in any measurable distance in the same amount of time? Meaning, can you swing a barrel @ 3300fps?

 

[TheBoctor]

For shotguns, sometimes it'll seem like it, but most of those effects can be attributed to your non-dominant eye taking over and your POA shifting as a result. It'll look like you "bent" the shot because your POI was laterally drastically different than your supposed POA. You'd be surprised (or maybe not) how if you smudge up the lens on your off-hand eye with some chapstick how that effect will disappear. Very common for the ambidextrous and those with cataracts/ shifting vision.

And to add to that, the muzzle of most shotguns/rifles is moving at 2 fps at the absolute fastest (ie when swinging through low house station 8 in skeet). Time-of-flight for any shot where you're swinging a lead is going to be well under half a second, so the maximum theoretical drift would be a foot. That coyote would have to be running 400mph at 400 yds for a 2 fps swing on the muzzle and a half second time-of-flight situation to actually occur.

 

[denobravo]

thanks guys ...I agree

 

[blackbrush1]

A bullet at 3300fps leaves a 26" barrel in .0011 seconds. How fast do you think you can swing a barrel that would would move the muzzle in any measurable distance in the same amount of time? Meaning, can you swing a barrel @ 3300fps?

Enough to miss a target. Happens all the tome.

 

[waveslayer]

If Angelina Jolie can do it, you can do it! You're not twisting the fun fast enough to go around corners

 

[DSheetz]

Watch tracers from the mini guns side mounted on a helicopter or C-130 they seem to be going in an arch from the ship to the target .

 

[waveslayer]

All bullets arc

 

[Chase723]

When you swing your rifle it most definitely imparts horizontal motion to the bullet. It does so at the angular rate that you are swinging the gun. It doesn't curve a bullet. It's an actual horizontal vector. You can prove this to yourself by swinging across a stationary target and pulling the trigger when you pass by it. You'll miss it unless you stop to pull the trigger.

 

[DSheetz]

You will also miss a running coyote if you stop to pull the trigger . You need to follow through with the animal's speed

 

[browndcm]

The only times I have noticed curving of shot out of a 12 gauge was in a rainy overcast day with very strong wind
The wind curved the shot string not the swing of the barrel
Was shooting no 4's at 1350fps

 

[dfrahm]

A bullet at 3300fps leaves a 26" barrel in .0011 seconds. How fast do you think you can swing a barrel that would would move the muzzle in any measurable distance in the same amount of time? Meaning, can you swing a barrel @ 3300fps?

So if i'm shooting my rifle off the bench on a lead sled and the barrel (theoretically) is not moving at all, much less swinging at a moving target such as a coyote, leaving out all other factors like brass, bullet, load, barrel, optics and more, how am i not punching one hole in every target with 10 shots every time? Doesn't seem to make sense . . . yet.