[John Jamieson]

You'd be too late. Those bullets do 3,000 ft/sec, about 3 times the speed of sound.

And yes, you'd be on the ground all right.

[The Red Zone]

Well no, I mean if I heard a bullet whiz by (a miss as was speculated).

[spetznaz]

You'd be too late. Those bullets do 3,000 ft/sec, about 3 times the speed of sound. And yes, you'd be on the ground all right

Hehe, that last part is funny. LOL: you'd be on the ground all right. Funny, but true.

By the time a person heard the ping of the rifle round he would be ringing St. Peter's desk. By the time the sound from a bullet travelling at Mach 3 reaches a person's ear that person is either dead or the bullet missed him.