A Canadian sniper killed a bad guy from quite a ways. 11,319 feet. Ten seconds.
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OT. Record shot.
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Fake News - he was just trying to wing him & he missed. :-)
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Ten seconds seems a little long as muzzle velocity is 2,641 fps according to Wiki. Myth Busters showed if you can see muzzle flash you can duck.
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The projectile begins to slow down immediately ... and continues to slow down, more and more. John T.
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Of course and maybe if I could remember my calculus I could calculate terminal velocity but haven't used it in 50 years.
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Which ignores friction losses entirely, though, which over those distances and at that muzzle velocity, while I've not tried to even guesstimate magnitudes, I think would be substantial effect.
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Air resistance is the important factor as is also the bullet shape. Rifle scope would be adjusted for distance. Some now even contain a laser to tell the exact distance and even set the X ring. They also dial in crosswind velocity. Air resistance accounts for terminal velocity for a straight up shot but this shot is not straight up.
In the process of typing this I decided to google the question and came up with this:
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Different weapon but it took 7.2 seconds.