How far on average does a bullet travel once shot up into the air?

I know the answer can vary depending on the type of gun and bullet you use but on average how far does it travel (let's assume a 92f 9mm). Also, once you shoot the bullet and it travels up towards the skies it eventually loses momentum and then falls to the ground, isnt it so? So if this happens when the bullet falls back to the ground the momentum and speed can also be just as detrimental to be fatal if it lands on someone's head, am I right?





If someone can shed light on this that would be great.





Thanks!|||On Average, the 9mm leaves the barrel at somewhere around 1,000 feet per second. The only variable on the return trip is friction from the atmosphere, wind resistance. And if it falls on someone's head, yes, it would kill them. In a vaccuum, it would be at the exact same velocity at that particular height. In reality, it would be extremely difficult to predict the point at which it returns or how much wind resistance will move the trajectory. It would make about 150 yards straight up before stalling out.|||Depends on bullet type and load. And, yes...it will eventually fall back to Earth (damn that pesky gravity!), and will go right through your skull into your vitals. Happens every New Year's.|||well a bullet will travel a in excess of a mile (uninterumpted) when shot horizonatally (near enough)





so butching all the phyics it would for all intesive perposes be reasonable to assume that it would travel a similar distance upward?|||That's a fantastic question. sorry cant answer, but have to read the rest of your answers.lol