In article , (Doug Miller) wrote:

Oh, come on! The piece of wood in the first video travelled "just a few feet"
because it hit a sheet of plywood on the opposite side of the shop! Can't you
imagine that it would have gone much farther than it did, if there hadn't been
something in the way? Good grief.

It didn't penetrate the plywood, did it?

The OP's molding penetrated shingles, insulation and
drywall. And that was at a range of 50ft!

Sure the wood in the video would have gone farther. But
not much before the effect of gravity drove it to the
ground. Maybe 10ft, maybe even 20ft, but nothing close
to 50ft, IMO.

Such a free-flying projectile is decelerating in the
horizontal plane and it's accelerating rapidly in the
vertical.

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