A couple videos that show trace, swirl, vapor, or whatever you want to call it

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Dunno if this is a good place to put these videos but I went shooting with a buddy for a couple hours last night at a farm that I can shoot to 1300M. Depending on the crop cycle.
It was a good afternoon to catch bullets flying through the air so I tossed my nikon P900 on the tripod and recorded a few rounds on their way towards the target.

338 Edge at 1100M

Buddies 700 in 308
at 800 and 450 ish

 
A little late in the game, but a quick vid of my shooting my rifle for the first time at 750m. I know, it's not that far, but it was the first round at that range from this rifle and I figured I'd walk it out further after a few shots.

 
Nice OP . Where was the camera placed in relation to the shooter in the first vid ?
 
atr said:
Nice OP . Where was the camera placed in relation to the shooter in the first vid ?
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The camera was on a tripod probably about 5 ft to left of the shooter and 3.5 ft off the ground. Here is an older video through a spotting scope of my buddies winmag at about 900M. The camera is eye level and more or less directly behind the shooter.
If you watch the videos on youtube instead of embedded the trace is a lot more visible.
 
Thanks OP . When i'm spotter i always try to set up my scope by the shooters waist , about 1 to 2 feet higher than the rifle scope and about 3 feet right of the rifle scope . For some reason that's where i see trace the best but have never tried to shoot vid of it .
 
Very cool! Last time I was at the Intro day at the ORA shoot up at Borden, by late afternoon with the sun just right, you could see the vapor trails out to just 200yrds. Never seen 'em before then...
 
Roddy said:
Nice shooting and nice videos.

What are you using for a camera/spotting scope/clamp setup?
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In the first 3 videos I am using a Nikon p900. It is one of the larger cameras in their point and shoot line. It has a 60x optical zoom and 83x digital zoom. I got it near the end of the summer last year and am pretty happy with it.
The last video I posted was filmed with my Samsung galaxy through a spotting scope with a home made adapter that essential is a piece of kydex shaped to hold my phone with some rubber plumbing fittings glued to it to it will slide over the lens of my spotting scope.
 
CanuckR said:
In the first 3 videos I am using a Nikon p900. It is one of the larger cameras in their point and shoot line. It has a 60x optical zoom and 83x digital zoom. I got it near the end of the summer last year and am pretty happy with it.
The last video I posted was filmed with my Samsung galaxy through a spotting scope with a home made adapter that essential is a piece of kydex shaped to hold my phone with some rubber plumbing fittings glued to it to it will slide over the lens of my spotting scope.
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Do you have any pictures or how to guides for your phone adapter? The only home made ones I have seen have looked awful and been very clunky.
 
Roddy said:
Do you have any pictures or how to guides for your phone adapter? The only home made ones I have seen have looked awful and been very clunky.
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Here are the 2 versions of mine. The first one was used on leupold gold ring spotters. I took a piece of kydex and formed it around my phone case. I leave my phone in my otter box all the time. However the same thing could be done with a cheap case that your phone will clip in and out of.
I then took a threaded plumbing end cap and cut the square off the end of it and glued it to the kydex piece. I can clamp on the rubber tube and it slides over the eye piece of the spotting scope.

The 2nd one is built off the same kydex piece. It's self explanatory, it bolts onto the spotter and the phone clips into it.

They aren't pretty, nor complex, but they were cheap and I have recorded a lot through them.
 
From time to time I've seen bullets in flight. Not often and only in certain light conditions!

BTW, nice homemade camera set up to use the lenses in the spotting scope.
 
CanuckR said:
Here are the 2 versions of mine. The first one was used on leupold gold ring spotters. I took a piece of kydex and formed it around my phone case. I leave my phone in my otter box all the time. However the same thing could be done with a cheap case that your phone will clip in and out of.
I then took a threaded plumbing end cap and cut the square off the end of it and glued it to the kydex piece. I can clamp on the rubber tube and it slides over the eye piece of the spotting scope.

The 2nd one is built off the same kydex piece. It's self explanatory, it bolts onto the spotter and the phone clips into it.

They aren't pretty, nor complex, but they were cheap and I have recorded a lot through them.
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Nice setup. Thanks for posting that!
 
I still remember the first time I was self spotting trace at 300y. Kept wondering what was wrong with my scope, and why target kept distorting after every round!! After about 5 rounds I realized what I was seeing was bullet trace!
 
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