rgecko23
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No way a muzzleloader could shoot that far and still have the velocity to go through someones head, this is hard for me to believe
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Schu72
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Sounds a little iffy to me as well. I assume they will do a ballistics check to see if it was really his gun and what the angle of entry was.
rgecko23
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Somebody gets what I am saying. Terminal velocty would have have happened a long time before a mile and half. Going to do the numbers.
Did some quick guesstimates and it could kill. It is still unlikely but it only takes a force of 60 ft. lbs. to start hitting potentially fatal numbers. A standard 30-06 round is 30 pounds of force when hitting within its terminal velocity and the muzzy round could have been twice as heavy (mass) than the -06 round. The mile and a half may be an exagerration. If so it may have had more speed/force than if it were just at terminal velocity speeds.
Crazy either way.
Crazy either way.
Terminal velocity is the maximum velocity of an object falling straight down. Like a bullet fired perfectly straight up. This bullet was moving laterally. Somewhere around 30 degrees gets you the maximum distance.
I found a chart that claims a FP 240 grain .44 mag bullet with a muzzle velocity of 1760 fps will travel 2500 yards and hit the ground going 350 fps. A 240 grain bullet going 350fps generates about 65 ft/lbs. Lots of variables, some we don't know, like if there is a difference in elevation, exactly what bullet and what velocity. So I believe a ML bullet could make it 1.5 miles.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/DomnaAntoniadis.shtml
I found a chart that claims a FP 240 grain .44 mag bullet with a muzzle velocity of 1760 fps will travel 2500 yards and hit the ground going 350 fps. A 240 grain bullet going 350fps generates about 65 ft/lbs. Lots of variables, some we don't know, like if there is a difference in elevation, exactly what bullet and what velocity. So I believe a ML bullet could make it 1.5 miles.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/DomnaAntoniadis.shtml
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