Originally Posted by
snock
Apart from it being dumb?
If terminal velocity at 122mph were measured in fps it would be around 178fps.
So, a 14.3gr pellet doing 178fps would contain just over 1.0 ftlb.
Enough to blind you if you're looking up. That's why it's dumb.
As kids, we used to fire vertically upwards regularly with the specific aim of having the pellet land somewhere near. That very rarely happened - and when it did, the best we could achieve usually involved us hearing the pellet land yards away. Dumb it may be - but not dumber than all the other dangerous things we used to do.
Happy Shooting!! Paul.
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them" - Albert Einstein.
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