It's likely that shot was fired at an angle and not straight up

A shot fired straight up would lose all velocity at the zenith, stop spinning and start to tumble on its way down, drastically lowering its terminal velocity.

I think mythbusters did a segment on this, actually.

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Posted: 12/06/2019 at 2:51PM

This is how Medellin celebrates ringing in the month of December -- capitals1 12/06/2019 11:37AM

They were shooting at that UFO and it sure didn't hang around for long.** -- MikeVT85 12/06/2019 4:20PM

Jeez, how many people have a bullet land on their head? -- King Jaffe Joffer 12/06/2019 1:08PM

Yea but at a much much lower speed, the air friction slows them down -- fordham 12/06/2019 2:23PM

A 30 cal. drop 300 fps minimum. That's plenty fast. A local kid was -- 48zip 12/06/2019 2:31PM

It's likely that shot was fired at an angle and not straight up -- VTSnake 12/06/2019 2:51PM

Yea, that was my point, you explained it better. -- fordham 12/06/2019 5:16PM

That was about time, not speed. (link) -- 48zip 12/06/2019 3:29PM

Memories of Sugar Bowl for the 1995 team. We had a couple of locals warn -- Late 80s Hokie 12/06/2019 2:20PM

Might have been some gun fire in there. Maybe. ** -- great2bahokie 12/06/2019 11:51AM

And this -- capitals1 12/06/2019 11:39AM

It's likely that shot was fired at an angle and not straight up

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