Miata Mailing List: January 1998, Message #91
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From: 	"Matthew T. Russotto" <russotto@pond.com>

Subject: NMC:  Happy New Year and bullet diameters

Date: 	Thu, 1 Jan 1998 19:39:19 +0000



} As I walked toward my office building's front door this morning, on the 

} concrete plaza outside I spied a slug that had struck the ground 

} head-first, presumably having been fired skyward at midnight.  It is fairly 

} short but of significant diameter, probably a quarter-inch, and has a 

} copper jacket that was peeled back from the tip on impact.  Maybe a .357 or 

} 45.  Scary!  Whoever fired it wasn't f**king around.  Also, at about 

} midnight last night I heard someone rapidly fire off four or five rounds 

} from a semiautomatic weapon.  What a town!



Err, if it's about .25" in diameter AFTER hitting the ground

nose-first (which tends to increase a bullet's diameter), it sure wasn't

357 or .45 before hitting the ground.