Can you shoot the church bell on the first run?

[Dark-Buddha]

meaning, with the pistol?

Is it just a really hard shot or did they make it literally impossible.

[Weskers Personal Gimp]

Nope, it's too far.

[Lynfinity]

https://youtu.be/Md0hDspZ6Vk
Long story short - you cannot. The pistol does not have enough range for its bullets to reach the bell.

[☆ Birki ☆]

You can in Separate Ways - but it just says that Ada must enter church to ring its bell

[3 hp hero]

You 100% can. Go on top of the roof where you should kill chainsaw. Shoot the church bell with you pistol. Watch my very first run here, time @1:44:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8fBM4G5Osw&t=6317s

[Seamus]

Originally posted by 3 hp hero:

You 100% can. Go on top of the roof where you should kill chainsaw. Shoot the church bell with you pistol. Watch my very first run here, time @1:44:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8fBM4G5Osw&t=6317s

You didn't hit the bell. It rang on its own. The starting pistols CANNOT hit the bell. Capcom expressly programmed it that way.

[Protoman]

I've typed a long reply before, but since this thread is old, I'll echo the user above: you cannot hit the bell with the pistol in any way. When you hit the bell with the rifle, it rings right away - in your video it rings after a half-second.
The reason pistols can't hit the bell is because in RE4 Remake, if you shoot at anything that is over the effective range of the weapon, the bullet just disappears from the world. There is no bullet dropoff, wind or anything. It just disappears.

You can mod the starting pistol to give it the same range as the sniper rifle, and it will indeed hit the bell on a first playthrough. But in the vanilla game, no way.