Talk:Bullet drop

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[edit] Bullet rise?

I understand there is also something known as "bullet rise", in which a shooter needs to aim below his target if he is shooting from a vertical elevation above the target? - Brian Kendig 03:31, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bullet drop in smaller calibers?

"In general, smaller, faster cartridges, such as the .204 Ruger and .17 HMR are more prone to bullet drop due to the lower speed"

Does anyone else see a discrepancy there? Is it an error? A lighter bullet will definitely get blown more by the wind. But a faster moving bullet would reach its target with less time to fall, so would experience less drop due to higher speed. - Trumpetpunk42 22:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

In vacuum, a bullet going twice faster would have 1/4 of the bullet drop. So it seems improbable that with air resistance that would turn into a ratio > 1

On the subject of combining this with "external ballistics": if "bullet drop" is an actual seperate subject why combining it with a more general subject. This is aan encyclopedia after all ? Sjoerd22 20:43, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Agree - most if not all of this topic is already covered in a better fashion in the External ballistics article. There is no reason for this to be a separate subject. Bullet drop is not unique from ballistics, it is an aspect of ballistics. Arthurrh 18:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)