Just did some quick napkin math. At the low end, the .223 has a muzzle velocity of about 900 yards per second, which, at that distance, means that the bullet made it to Donald in roughly 0.14s. at the high end, muzzle velocity is about 1233 yards per second, meaning it cleared the gap in very nearly .1s even. I did a bit of googling, and it looks like human reaction time at the low end is about 200 ms, BUT can be much lower or even a hair premature if the reaction is the result of a trained, anticipatory response. As such, it seems likely that Crooks’ reaction time, rather than 0.2s, was much closer to some negligible value, even when considered from the frame of a bullet’s travel.
That means that wherever Donald’s head was 0.1-0.15s before the infamous bullet photo was taken is probably very close to what Crooks saw when he pulled the trigger.
No, I meant yards. I converted f/s to y/s by dividing the muzzle velocity in f/s by three so that I could work in the same units the guy above me used to measured Trump’s distance from crooks.
Just did some quick napkin math. At the low end, the .223 has a muzzle velocity of about 900 yards per second, which, at that distance, means that the bullet made it to Donald in roughly 0.14s. at the high end, muzzle velocity is about 1233 yards per second, meaning it cleared the gap in very nearly .1s even. I did a bit of googling, and it looks like human reaction time at the low end is about 200 ms, BUT can be much lower or even a hair premature if the reaction is the result of a trained, anticipatory response. As such, it seems likely that Crooks’ reaction time, rather than 0.2s, was much closer to some negligible value, even when considered from the frame of a bullet’s travel.
That means that wherever Donald’s head was 0.1-0.15s before the infamous bullet photo was taken is probably very close to what Crooks saw when he pulled the trigger.
(You meant feet per second.)
No, I meant yards. I converted f/s to y/s by dividing the muzzle velocity in f/s by three so that I could work in the same units the guy above me used to measured Trump’s distance from crooks.