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Humanphibian

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Would it be possible for a .50 round to go vertical off of the backstop, and drift that far? I am not familliar with the ballistics of the round, but that kind of drift seems somewhat feasable if the round still had a fairly high velocity when (if) it ricocheted off of the berm.



just a thought.
 

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Humanphibian wrote:
Would it be possible for a .50 round to go vertical off of the backstop, and drift that far? I am not familliar with the ballistics of the round, but that kind of drift seems somewhat feasable if the round still had a fairly high velocity when (if) it ricocheted off of the berm.



just a thought.
Even if it could, it wouldn't carry enough velocity that farto do the damage that was done. Remember, if it was fired down the range, it would have to reverse course to land at the track. I doubt that it would keep a stabilized trajectory after all of that. Once a bullet starts to tumble it slows to terminal velocity as it falls, it would be like a large hailstone.
 

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Renegade wrote:
- the range is approximately 1.00 mile north east of the closest section of the race track property
- the range is approximately 1.75miles north east of the farthest section of the race track property
Good picture, bad measurement.

Check it again: from the firing line at Quail Creek to the northeastern edge of the TMS perimeter road, is almost 2 miles, not 1. Continuing on that line to the southwestern perimeter road is another 1.7 or so miles, for a max of well over 3.5 miles according to the Google Maps scale.
 
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