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[Nikov]

I'm confused. 3 feet = 1 yard. Was your point something else?

[Tack]

Australians shoot bullseye from 250 meters.

Made meme.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Mythbusters shoot bullseye from 250 kilometers.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

[Leafsnail]

Could've sworn it said metres.

Carry on.

[Nikov]

X-Ray Lasers shoot bullseye from 250 light-seconds.

If it's worth doing, it's worth really overdoing.

[Heron TSG]

Fun new calculation, how quickly must I fire my rifle if it takes five rounds to kill the bear, but each bullet halves the bears top speed. Assume 100 yards.

I'll replace Yards with Meters because I'm more familiar with doing speeds with them due to Physics class.

Initially, the bear is running at 13.333 m/s. After the first shot, 6.667 m/s. Then 3.333 m/s, 1.667 m/s, and .833 m/s. If you fired off one shot per second, you could kill it in 25.833 meters. If you shot once every three seconds, it would die in 77.5 meters. With four second reload times, you would be dead meat.

[Tack]

Yeah, nobody takes four seconds to reload. Not even hella ametures with a bolt-action no-magazine rifle.

Maybe a musket, aquebuss, or blunderbuss, but even that I doubt.


What about from 50 yards? Or meters, because metric is far easier on the maths.

[mainiac]

Fun new calculation, how quickly must I fire my rifle if it takes five rounds to kill the bear, but each bullet halves the bears top speed. Assume 100 yards.

Hand the job over to a US marine.  It takes about .3 seconds for a marine's assault rifle to fire a three round burst.  Because you want five bullets, you'll need two bursts and a quarter second pause in between for dramatic effect.  At 100 yards, it will take approximately .1 seconds for the final bullet to travel from the gun to the bear.  So the bear will have six pieces of lead jewelry in .95 seconds.  Assuming it starts out at full speed and halves it's speed with every shot till the fifth, it will have traveled about two meters before it snuffs it.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Of course, all of these calculations assume you don't miss.

[Strife26]

Missing a target the size of a bear at anything less than 200 meters with an M4 would be incredibly tough, even for someone who is shaky from nerves. At 50, a human head size target stays up for about a second in a qualification test.

Source: Just finished Basic. Hooah.

[Heron TSG]

Maybe a musket, aquebuss, or blunderbuss, but even that I doubt.

You try loading a musket in four seconds. I want pics.

[Tack]

Don't you mean video?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You aren't going to capture a four-second musket load on video, at least not without a high speed camera.

[Heron TSG]

Don't you mean video?

No, I want a series of pictures shown one after another that have been taken at 1000th of a second intervals.

[Josephus]

So... a hi-quality 1000fps video?