>>64097845 (OP)Okay so I did some quick calculating here. The average running speed of a 20 year old woman according to Torokhtiy (some random weightlifting website) is between 4.5 and 8.5 miles per hour. I will assume that Shoshana’s speed was probably closer the latter due to her state of fitness and adrenaline. 8.5 miles per hour translates to around 750 feet per minute or 12.5 feet per second. I re-watched the scene with a stopwatch and 36 seconds elapse from when she escaped the basement and when Landa puts his gun down (essentially ending his window of opportunity to shoot her). Assuming that the scene occurs in real time and she maintained a constant speed in those 36 seconds, she would have covered roughly 450 feet or 137 meters of ground.
Landa’s weapon is a Walther P38, standard issue pistol in the Wehrmacht and SS. It has an effective firing range of 50 meters, after which point the effects of gravity and air pressure on the bullet make it difficult for even a crack shot to reliably hit anything, although it’s not impossible.
At 137 meters, Shoshana was well over twice the effective range of a P38 away from Landa.
Could he have hit her at that 36 second mark? Honestly probably not. Even if he was an expert marksman with his P38, the mere fact that she was a moving target and already well beyond effective range would have made that shot virtually impossible, at least on the first try. Now if he had opened fire 10-20 seconds earlier, he may have been able to do it, and even if he missed the first shot, he still would have had enough time to readjust for a second or third. But by the time he put his gun down, he would in all likelihood have missed the first shot and not had time for another before she disappeared over the hill.
