I want to focus my answer on maximum (im)possible bullet travel distance. This can happen to relativistic antibulletanti-bullet - heat and explosion would not have enough time to affect bullet speed and radiation will not stop it completlycompletely before total anihilationannihilation (what would happen next nanosecond is out of scope of this answer). So it is simple "total anihilationannihilation path".
Lets our bullet be antiAKanti-assault rifle bullet, i.e. 5.56×45mm NATO SS109, made of 62gr of anti-copper & mostly of anti-leed andlead, with the bullet crossareahaving a cross-sectional area of 25.5 mm^2. I do not know exact proportions, but lets say it is 10gr (0.16 moles) anti-copper and 52gr (0,.25 moles) anti-leedlead.
This would give us 6,.022e23*(0.1629 + 0.2582) = 6,.022e2325.4 = 15e24 antiprotonsanti-protons (and positrons) and 6,.022e23(0.1634.5 + 0.25125) = 6,.022e23*36.77 = 22e24 antineutronsanti-neutrons to annihilate.
Air density is 1.2 mkgr/mm^3 or 30.6 mg/m of bullet flight distance. Since both nitrogen and oxigen hasoxygen have (almost) equal proton/neutron ratio, we can take average air mole mass 28,.98 g/mole. This would give us about 4.6e21/m = 4.6e24/km of protons, same numbers of electrons and neutrons.
So fistfirst thing we can see - antiprotonsanti-protons (and antieletronsanti-electrons) would deplete much earlerearlier than antineutronsanti-neutrons and subsequent explosion would have two distinct zones:
- 3.3 km - path of total air anihilationannihilation. All matter would turn into gamma radiation
- +1.5 km - path of nuetronneutron-only anihilationannihilation. Air would turn into into superheatedsuper-heated plasma (protons+electrons+lots of gamma radiation) - a perfect conditions for good old thermonuclear reaction
Total path would be about 5 km.
So, please, do not fire bullets made from antimetterantimatter with relativistic speed in my neighbourhoodneighborhood (i.e. Earth, or even my solar system).