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Originally Posted by damaticous
Actually, from what I remember, the ball bearing in your hand would hit the ground first.
when you fire a bullet from a gun the bullet tends to arch upward a bit, so it is actually falling at a different height from the one that is dropped.
I could be wrong, but I remember reading that or seeing it on TV or something.
Otherwise, yes, they'd hit the ground at the same time.
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Not quite.
A bullet starts to drop the moment it leaves the barrel. Because of that the sites are adjusted so that the barrel is actually aimed higher that what the sites indicate so that the bullet “falls” into the target at the point predicted by the sites.
The sites are also aimed slightly to the right, IIRC, because the bullet comes out spinning and will move slightly from left to right as it travels.