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Old 05-18-2007, 14:08   #34
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
One of the things they looked at was the attitude of the bullet at impact. Turns out that as you state, the bullets fly nose high from max ordinate on (or just never turn nose down from their initial launch attitude).

Very weird.

TR
My guess would be that as the bullet slows gravity starts to take affect and changes the angle of the pressure wave moving in front of the bullet.

This pressure wave might keep the nose up at slower velocities where at the higher velocities the pressure wave would be equally distributed.

Just a guess.

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