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poster said shot, not bullets: "That said, a shotgun blast up into the air at a hovering drone doesn't pose much risk to anyone else (bullets are a different ma
by spathi_fwiffo 11y ago
poster said shot, not bullets:
"That said, a shotgun blast up into the air at a hovering drone doesn't pose much risk to anyone else (bullets are a different matter)."
If he was using birdshot, there would be no risk to anyone past a few hundred feet. If there was a risk, trap/skeet would not be possible in most of the places where you can shoot it.
- mikeash 11y agoAnd just to clarify why that matters, shot is lots of small pellets, and small objects experience much more deceleration due to aerodynamic drag, and have a much lower terminal velocity.