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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AverageCitizen" data-source="post: 4093325" data-attributes="member: 57845">No, he's right. Lateral momentum doesn't reduce the pull of gravity. You have to remember that even the slightest arc in the shot would increase flight time. Snipers account for this.The only exception that I can think of would be a bullet traveling so fast that it would apply its lateral force directly against the earth's gravitational pull before it lost its velocity. Which means it would have to get past the horizon and then out into space before the pencil hits the ground.</blockquote>