A friend of mine told me a gun myth that I wanted to get commentary on.
Basically it goes like this: If you take a gun and fix it to a mount so it is perfectly perpendicular to the ground, and the ground if flat, and you hold an idential bullet to the the the gun fires next to the gun barell and release it the instant the gun is fired and the bullet from it leaves the barell, the two bullets will hit the ground at the same instant.
The belief is that gravity pulls both bullets down at the same speed whether one is moving foeward at high velocity or not, so both will drop at the same rate even if one is moving forward at high speed, and thus both will contact the ground at the same instant, even if the one keeps sliding, skipping or rolling foward and the other just drops straight down.
Any gun experts want to comment on this?