"Gary Coffman" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:17:57 -0600, "Bill Bright"
wrote:
It would be hard to tell, because a rifle bullet is not going to be spin
stableized any more. It would start falling base to earth until the wind
resistance hitting the flat base would start it tumbling. Now if the
bullet
shape had the center of gravity foward of the tip to base center point,
then
it would fall stable pointy end down and have a very high terminal
velocity

No. As Hatcher reported, the army tests showed the bullets were still
spin stablized when they came down (base first).

I don't think so, although it's been many years since I read the research. I
thought they were tumbling.

Ed Huntress