So...
...how do footballers bend a kick then? There's no reason that you couldn't do this with a bullet, although you'd have to revert to old-fashioned round shot and somehow impart lateral spin.

You're absolutely right that you couldn't do it with a standard bullet because the longitudinal spin is designed precisely to make the bullet fly straight. But the idea that any bullet couldn't curve sideways without some obvious external force like a sidewind isn't necessarily true.
(flimflam_machine, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 11:24, 1 reply)

Um
Well yes if you kicked a bullet off-centre with a swinging arc of your leg thus creating spin thus creating drag thus changing the trajectory of the ball. I don't think kicking bullets really works though and would probably just end up annoying the intended target instead of killing them.
(Blunt Logic, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 14:08, closed)

That really is blunt logic
When I said "There's no reason that you couldn't do this with a bullet.." by "this" I didn't mean kick it!

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(flimflam_machine, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 14:11, closed)