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Glenfilthie

Glenfilthie

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Or my eyes are improving.

Fellers, I swear - yesterday I was shooting the trusty .45 ACP at the range and I could see that bullet fly! Have you guys ever actually seen bullets fly to the target? I have heard guys claiming you can sometimes see them go with rifles too but I always thought they were telling whoppers and porkies.

I think the sun was just right and it lit up the jacketed bullets like they were tracers or something. Couldn't see the ones from the .44 mag or the .22 go though...:eek:
 
Temperature tricks... you don't see bullets, but the "tail" left by it. Difference in temperature + moist = same effect as you can see airplane in the sky (white trace)
 
I only see handgun rounds when I shoot at 100 yards or more. (Don't ask)Not all of them but I can see quite a few. Cool to look at. My favs are .357 at 200.
 
At a couple hundred yards I can see them, especially .45Colt out of a trapper.

Did a little clay shooting this weekend, overcast and I could see the shot, it's really quick and just a glimps but you can see if you're looking for it.
 
It's definitely possible with a slow moving round like the .45ACP. It's more common if the shooter is directly in front of you and it is clear day with the sun behind you. I frequently see shot patterns if the conditions are right.
 
I have seen this standing 20 - 30 yards behind a shooter, 15 to 30 degrees off their centre. Especially when the light is 10 - 11 o'clock high and to the front of the shooter.
 
It's happened a few times watching somebody else shoot light .38spl loads. Happened in the right light conditions, close to dusk if I remember correctly.

It was freaky the first time it happened. Couldn't believe my eyes.
 
Very common with 38Spl loads, especially when indoors. Could easily happen with 45acp as well as it too is of a lower velocity, especially if a lighter load.
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this video might make some of you laugh or the "Fun Police" might grill me but thats beside the point right now, on the 3rd shot in this video i made you can see the buckshot just before it rips the nest in two, the first 2 shots where No# 6 lead imperial's (old paper shells you old timers will remember).

im behind the camera by the way. watch in HQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-6g7jqYnsU
 
Cerdan said:
It was freaky the first time it happened. Couldn't believe my eyes.
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would be even more freaky if you where hunting or in a self defence situation, seeing the bullets fly thru the air then hitting the target.

lol just thinking about that freaks me out.
 
Sure seen this plenty of times, mostly at IPSC meets where somebody is shooting a .40 in Standard :)

Barely makes it to the target...
 
Claybuster said:
It's definitely possible with a slow moving round like the .45ACP. It's more common if the shooter is directly in front of you and it is clear day with the sun behind you. I frequently see shot patterns if the conditions are right.
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Isn't that a bit dangerous?:D
 
On a hot day at Genessee (because of the ground always being damp there) you can see a .30 cal bullet (as it cuts through the heat waves) perfectly fly out to the 300, 400, 500 yard gongs...
 
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