If point blank isn’t point blank... then what is point blank
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What Is Point Blank Range?
Point-blank is the range at which a given weapon/ammunition combination can be fired at the center or vital area of a given target and hit it without the shooter having to adjust the elevation of the weapon to account for the effect of gravity on the projectile’s trajectory.
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enfieldspares
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Not of course to be confused with the "dangerous space".
Orion
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Painful! - For everybody concerned or in the near vicinity.
enfieldspares
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"Off the muzzle" as in shooting something...or in the case of the television show someone...just a few feet distance "off the muzzle".
Orion
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And if you’re really, really close, then one of these may be advisable:
Breaching Stand-Off Muzzle Device
Breaching Stand-Off Muzzle Device
hughsurrey
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I was taught that Point Blank was the distance at which the trajectory of your bullet would remain inside the diameter of your target, so if your quarry had a 4 inch kill zone, then the point blank range would be the point at which the bullet would drop two inches below your point of aim (presuming that you were aiming at the centre of the kill zone). If I zero my .308 at an inch high at 100 yrds, it will reach PBR at 235 yrds.
badbob
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dont watch homeland
try "at the end of the barrel"" At the muzzle" or "a contact shot" "point blank" " dead close" "coup de grace shot "
Gangsters and assassins use a pillow as a stand off device.
think pointe blanc really an archery term and for slow high trajectory bullets.
when your arrow or bullet goes exactly where you are aiming without computing any fall due to gravity.
Somewhat obsolete for HV rifles but
aim through a scope on a rifle and at 5 yards bullet might go 1.5 inches low ,then to zero at about 30 yards,
try "at the end of the barrel"" At the muzzle" or "a contact shot" "point blank" " dead close" "coup de grace shot "
Gangsters and assassins use a pillow as a stand off device.
think pointe blanc really an archery term and for slow high trajectory bullets.
when your arrow or bullet goes exactly where you are aiming without computing any fall due to gravity.
Somewhat obsolete for HV rifles but
aim through a scope on a rifle and at 5 yards bullet might go 1.5 inches low ,then to zero at about 30 yards,
I once had to dispatch a badly shot fallow doe who was in very heavy cover and paralysed after a client had spine shot her. As I pulled the trigger she threw her head back and it actually hit the mod. Brains and bone everywhere. Absolutely awful. God I was cross with him. Poor old girl.
A Guy Out West
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I would say, very close range.
'Badbob' has it already.... I think it is generally called a "Contact Shot" ....meaning that the muzzle of the firearm is/was in close contact with the unfortunate (here) target!...
It is amazing how easily and quickly an original and correct bit of terminology can and does get adulterated by inapropriate usage, and then flippin'sticks!!... Ha!
It is amazing how easily and quickly an original and correct bit of terminology can and does get adulterated by inapropriate usage, and then flippin'sticks!!... Ha!
timbrayford
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Bullets follow a parabolic curve so there are two point blanks, the first is where the trajectory of the rising bullet intercepts the sightline and the second where the descending bullet once again crosses your sightline, often referred to as "zero". The term "point blank" is frequently used as a euphemism for very close range, which it might be, but highly unlikely to be immediately at the end muzzle, especially with a scope fitted or raised sights like on the AK47 etc.
Woodsmoke
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That's assuming the rifle is aimed above the horizontal in the first place, though.
A bullet fired horizontally will only ever drop due the effects of gravity.
Which is why we don't have our scopes parallel with our barrels.
Relative to the line of sight (as seen through the scope), the barrel is always pointing slightly upwards.
Bullets in flight never rise above the line along which they were travelling when discharged, only fall away below it.
Ttocs
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Many years ago I shot a fox at around 80yards and on aproacing it I found it wasn’t dead. I quickly chambered a round and shot it in the head from around 3-4 yards. The bang from the bullet hitting the fox‘s head just about burst my eardrums; never again!
Lesson from this cautionary tail, even if it’s safe ie soft ground and good backstop, never shoot at close range with high velocity expanding ammunition.
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Lesson from this cautionary tail, even if it’s safe ie soft ground and good backstop, never shoot at close range with high velocity expanding ammunition.
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