# If you fired a gun while parachuting...

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 1, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fired-a-gun-while-parachuting/292358 "2005-03-01T00:06:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-fired-a-gun-while-parachuting/292358/21 "2005-03-03T03:31:33Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> So the effect isn’t near what I expected - and my coworker was right. There’ll be no living with him now. Although, I wasn’t thinking about freefall - I was thinking someone hanging from a canopy, so their velocity would be less than terminal. Again, I don’t know enough about parachuting or shooting to figure this out.

Yeah, but you can always throw out at him that if you had a particularly dimwitted parachutist/gunner, a shotgun fired straight up might PROFOUNDLY affect the downards velocity.

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Cartooniverse

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