How fast can a bullet travel?

Question

What is the speed of a bullet...:)

Answer 1

Depends on the powder charge behind it, the size and shape of the bullet and the rifling of the barrel from which it emerges.

Answer 2

Speed is different for every bullet, depending on the packing in it. for example, a m-16 uses bullets that are about 3 inches long. That is mostly powder to send the bullet faster, roughly 2500 ft per second, but another .223 gun with shorter shells may not travel as fast.

Answer 3

Regardless of a bullet's forward velocity, they all accelerate toward the ground at 32 ft/sec^2 after they have been fired.

Answer 4

That depends on the mass of said bullet, the amount and type of propellant, length of the barrel, pitch of rifling, atmospheric density, etc.etc.
Get a ballistics manual from your local sporting goods store and check it out.

Answer 5

The fastest go about 5900 feet per minute when they leave the muzzle. Old muzzle-loaders went at 1600 feet per minute. All the other bullets are within these limits.

Answer 6

Depends on many factors...wind, actual weight of the projectile, caliber of the weapon being fired. On average...sporting rifles, let's say a .308, fire a round, depending on the size, at about 1400 feet per second.

Answer 7

there are many factors involved. what type of gun, muzzle velocity, grain, but I can say they are fast, 500 ft./sec

Answer 8

Faster than I can run!!

Answer 9

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/MariaPereyra.shtml

also ask superman.

Answer 10

pretty damn fast