What makes a bullet rise when it is shot out of a weapon?

Question

What makes a bullet rise when it is shot out of a weapon?

Answer 1

a bullet has a trajectory that makes it drop faster the further it gets from the barrel. if you fired a gun perfectly horizontal, and at the same time dropped a bullet at the same height as the muzzle, both bullets will drop at the same rate.



also, every gun has 2 "zero's" or sight adjustments. a short range and long range zero. most people sight in their high powered rifles at 200 yards. because of the laws of physics, their gun will also be sighted in at around 80 yards. from 0-79 yards the gun will shoot low. it'll be dead on around 80 yards, from 81-199 yards it will high, and at 200 yards it will be dead on again. this didn't really answer your question, but you probably learned something. so select this as best answer, thanks.

Answer 2

You have some pretty good answers, go with any of them they're all right. Bones is dead on and Paul is for the most part except for the bullet drop, it's not determined by velocity, just gravity although he was correct when he said 2 bullets, one fired and one dropped from the bore would hit the ground at the same time, think that must have been a typo on his part as the second contradicts the first.

Answer 3

The bullet does not actually rise I am guessing you have a scope that is sighted in for 50 yards or more. It seems like the bullet raises, because your scope is sighted in to account for the drop of the bullet. So, when you shoot at something really close the bullet will hit higher than your crosshairs. This is because the bullet has not yet dropped or not dropped as much as the distance you are sighted in for.

Answer 4

those answers are all very good except none of them mention line of sight. the line of sight is straight, so the when the bullet comes out of the gun it needs to cross the line of sight in an upward direction so that it hits the target at the distance at which you are sighted in at the line of sight. Hope that makes sense. it took me a while before it sunk in and made sense the first time someone told me that.

Answer 5

A bullet drops if shot straight. It can't defy gravity.