"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED],..m.com> wrote: > On Sun, 6 May 2007 10:15:26 +0200, "Hendrik van Rooyen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > A rifle bullet can travel at around 5000 feet per second. > > You've got some fast rifles over there...
LOL - true - I stand corrected - I was aware that: 1) All the animals were slaughtered, and the American Civil War fought with rifles of muzzle velocity around 1800 fps. This was before bullets were jacketed - if you try to push a lead slug through a rifled barrel faster than this, it strips and fouls the barrel 2) That the old NATO round (.308 Winchester) travels at around 2500 fps. - and this was some forty years ago, when I did my stint of military duty. So being an idle bugger, I just naturally assumed that the speed would have doubled in the intervening time since I was last involved in this subject. - hence the 5000. Did you know that the first military smokeless powder round was for the French Lebel? - It threw a bronze ball, and could punch through a single brick wall. Battlefields were suddenly far more dangerous places. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list