Unlicensed Dremel
Moderator
It's generally well-accepted (and proven to my satisfaction personally), that the POI from a rifle or other gun doesn't change materially when it's raining, than when not.
But how on earth can this be? How could it be that a bullet going over twice the speed of sound, impacting an object (a raindrop) which has a mass of anywhere from a fraction of the bullet's, to almost as much as the bullet, in the case of large raindrops and/or light bullets, travelling downward at terminal velocity, thus with significant momentum - NOT severely change a bullets course? And not just once, but surely there are several collisions with raindrops on the way to the target, depending on rain density and distance to target. It blows my mind. I would expect to see massive differences (unpredictable from shot to shot, but generally downward) in POI from a heavy rain, and significant ones even in a light rain, especially from small, fast bullets, or small slow bullets too.
But how on earth can this be? How could it be that a bullet going over twice the speed of sound, impacting an object (a raindrop) which has a mass of anywhere from a fraction of the bullet's, to almost as much as the bullet, in the case of large raindrops and/or light bullets, travelling downward at terminal velocity, thus with significant momentum - NOT severely change a bullets course? And not just once, but surely there are several collisions with raindrops on the way to the target, depending on rain density and distance to target. It blows my mind. I would expect to see massive differences (unpredictable from shot to shot, but generally downward) in POI from a heavy rain, and significant ones even in a light rain, especially from small, fast bullets, or small slow bullets too.