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Thanks TXI and KBC, makes sense what you both said. I would think both angle and cartridge load would have to be taken into account to determine energy level remaining (except at true vertical)

Dave B.

txinvestigator wrote:A bullet shot exactly straight up will fall as Charlie described; however, if there is any angle and the barrel is not straight up, then the bullet will generally maintain enough velocity to be fatal.

I can't quite figure out why this would be true. I would think as the barrel moved off of vertical the velocity would SLOWLY increase. I would think that at say 10 deg. off vertical there would only be a small increase in velocity and would not be much more likely to be fatal then true vertical.

I may be missing something that make this incorrect but if so I can't understand the physics involved.

Dave B.