A bullet goes up and then drops so if the rifle was upside-down would the bullet go down and back up?

Answer 1

If you were to fire a bullet in a zero-gravity situation, the bullet would travel straight, not dropping or climbing. But on Earth, the gravity pulls the round down. So rifles are made to have the sights adjustable to compensate for distance, because gravity is going to pull the bullet down as it travels. Oddly, if you were to fire a bullet on Earth perfectly level with the ground, the bullet would take the same amount of time to hit the dirt whether its fired or dropped. Because Gravity is uniform. So, here's where the idea that the bullet goes "up" comes in. Most rifles have the sights set to where the barrel is just barely angled upwards to give you more drop time. The bullet itself doesn't climb. The barrel fires it slightly up. If you were to turn the rifle upside down, then all you're doing is angling the barrel down slightly, decreasing the time that it'll take to hit the dirt. It might richochet though and pop back up, but that has more to do with the physics and geometry of a deflected object than anything to do with a rifle's barrel.

Answer 2

No, the bullet drops back down because of gravity. If the rifle were pointed down, the bullet would continue to go down. Was that a serious question?

Answer 3

no if the rifle was upside down. the bullet would not go down and back up it'd hit the ground

Answer 4

i like my 7mm magazine, I dont extremely love the damn close to $50 a field for the Hornady's I shoot, yet i like the gun. i honestly dropped 2 does final week with neck pictures at approximately a hundred and fifty yards. No meat wasted. I dont have everywhere to shoot 3-4 hundred yards, however the guy who hunts land in the back of me does and he regularly takes a deer each and every season at those stages with the comparable gun.

Answer 5

Probably yes.
It depends upon the surface you are hitting your bullet.
If it a good, strong surface it will rebounce to a great height.
if it is soft, the bullet will not rebounce so much as compared to
rebounce made on a good, strong surface

Answer 6

Give it a shot

Answer 7

not unless gravity suddenly reverses itself

Answer 8

Of course not!

Answer 9

when I tried this, it stopped when it hit my foot. it hurt too.

Answer 10

No.