Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — The Drop of a Rifle Bullet. [ARTICLE]

The Drop of a Rifle Bullet.

The drop of a bullet at 100 yards will be nearly ten inches, basing the opinion on the Bashfurth experiments, and an assumed velocity of 1,900 feet per second, which is about as much velocity as can be gotten out of a thirtyinch, forty-caliber barrel, with as light a ball (100 grains); the powder (believed to be not exceeding ninety grains) occupying (for an average four fingers No. 8 hand)-two and threequarters inches of the bore, and not being fully consumed. With an assumed velocity of 2,100 feet per second, the drop will be at least eight inches in that distance.— American Field.