An Unbelievable Throw?

[GarthB]

Originally posted by NIump50
I resighted my 308 last fall for 200 yards. After I had it zeroed in I took some shots off the bench at 50, 100 and 150 yds because you never know where Bambi is going to show up. Anyway, I wanted to know how high I was at each yardage so I would know how to adjust my shot. Interestingly enough, at 50 yds I was dead on to .5 high. I expected to be a 2-3 inches high.
At 100 yds I was 2.5 inches high, at 150 yds between 1.5 and 1.75 high and at 200 dead on. Which means between 50 yds and 100 yds the bullet defied gravity and rose 2 inches.
My boys and I often play paintball on the farm and many times I see the little round spherical ball rise up and over my intended target right before I get blasted with one that didn't rise.

Why did these two objects rise? I don't know, I'm just a dumb farm boy and I haven't taken the time to learn all this aerodynamic stuff, but if the pitcher the hitter and the catcher all say the ball rose, I'm not arguing with them.
In every industry, it's the white shirts in the office working on theory and the men in the field working in reality, I tend to side with reality.

Deep Deep thought of the day...
The baseball is like a microcosm of the earth.
Science says the earth is billions of years old, all us umpires evolved from rats and a baseball can't rise.
Reality is the earth is 8,000 years old, thankfully we did not evolve from rats, at least most of us, and a baseball can rise. Of all the things science is wrong about rising fastballs seems to be the least of their transgressions.

It would take someone who thinks the earth is 8000 years old to think that a fastball can rise as it crosses the plate and not understand the concept of sighting-in a rifle.

My lord, this is just too fargin phunni for words, so I'll stop now. No, I have to add, at least we have seen what it takes to agree with SA.

[Edited by GarthB on Mar 7th, 2006 at 09:59 PM]