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Yes, I've seen .45 acp bullets while my friend was shooting at a target 10m away. I guess the lighting was right.

I've seen .50 bgm bullets too, saw them at about 10' away from the muzzle. When the shooter is firing bursts, you can see at least one from every burst.

I, too, believed that bullets where too fast for the eyes this close to the muzzle. It's a very impressive thing to witness.
 
If you look at a target with binoculars while sombody shoots at it with a pistol, you clearly see the bullets hitting the target...

my 2 cents
 
Yup...seen it happen quite a few times. Especially visible if standing to one side of a shooter, and the loads are light. Watching from the staging area or behind a shooter at shooting matches you find this is a common phenomenon, it also depends on the background. I watched a ten-ring target shooter firing his 45 in slow fire and I literally could call the score of each shot.
In Cowboy action it can also be seen since most shooters are running lighter low velocity loads.
As an RSO in an organized match you will rarely see the bullet as you are focusing on the gun and shooter rather then the target.
It is very cool to see it though.
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Glenfilthie said:
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:
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Yes, I've seen .45 and .38 special bullets fly, but only if the light, and direction the light is coming from, was just right. I think the bullet base is reflecting the light.

.22LR shot from rifles have also been visible at times.
 
At a TDSA course, I was able to see the bullets flying all day, regardless of where the sun was. Everybody (but me) was shooting 9mm from about 7 yards to the target.
 
I shoot at night sometimes at the range with the lights on the roof pointing down range. I can see every .45 round but not 9mm or .223 (too fast). It's amazing to see the actual flight path of the bullet. it's anything but straight at long distances. Very cool to watch.
 
45 is massive and slow, if you angle yourself behind the shooter you can see them EVERTIME in good lighting behind the contrast of a well lit white target, same with 9mm and .38, but .45 ACP is king

Kinda trippy :)
 
It's all about the lighting. On sunny days at Ridgedale range around lunchtime you can see rounds going to the 200 yard targets. It's neat with .22lr, you can see them lob in there. Accurate @ that range, but what a drop!
 
Just a thought, but if its travelling 950 or 1000 fps, and drops subsonic, there will be a "wave" in the air as it crosses the under the sound barrier. Either way, it's very possible.
 
I've seen this a few times, at an indoor range! I thought I was losing my mind but I asked my peers to watch as well and they saw it too...

We were shooting .40 from a CX4 Storm... The range is lit up pretty good though... It's like a dim tracer...
 
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