Watching 45-70 bullets inbound toward target

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While my son shot the 1895, I stood behind with binoculars to watch the target out at 200 yards.
With the light just right,I was able to see a silver streak just before the bullet impacted off the rock down range.
He didn't believe me, so I shot a couple rounds and asked him to watch for the silver streak.
Just before the 420 grain cast bullet hit the rock he saw the silver glint as the bullet bounced off into the dirt. It's really quite something to see a bullet in flight just before impact.:cool:
 
Seeing bullets in flight is not that rare. With right conditions prevailing, we could watch vertually every 44 mag bullet getting to the 200 meter rams, when we were shooting the 44 pistols.
I have, on more than one occassion, seen 22 rimfire bullets in flight. First time when I was just a kid. Two of us were plinking on a heavy overcast day, with snow on the ground. We were shooting north with the barrel elevated a bit into the dull sky. We could plainly see the bullets disappear into the overcast sky.
 
Watch the same shots from the same angle through binoculars or a spotting scope for a good show......
 
Depending on weather conditions its fairly common to see 22lr bullets arc up and down to the target through scope on scoped rifle. I think its either light on maybe humidity that makes vapour trail - hard to say. It is cool to watch though.
 
I to have seen the glint off of a bullet jacket from rifles ranging from 303's to 7rem Mags, on 500 meter targets. Really a bit of a freak out the first time, but the more you shoot, at these longer sorts of distances you will see it more and more often. The light does have to be right as does the backdrop contrast.
 
I remember the same thing happening to me years ago. We were shooting a 45/70 with jacketed bullets and the sun was setting at my back. We could clearly see the suns reflection off the bullet base as it streaked (a 45/70 streaks?) towards the target. Looked like little gold tracers.
Here's a strange but true one: as a teenager more then 30 years ago I blew all my summer job money on a new Ruger #1 in 6mm Remington with a nice scope on it. Loaded up a bunch on 75 gr. hollow points and headed to the dump (Pine Point, Northwest Territories) to try it out. A solid hit on a raven (yes, I know, please don't tell me again) would result in a very unusual thing. For the briefest fraction of a second we would see a white flash appear on the raven. After several more shots we realized that what we were seeing was the snow on the other side of the raven, glimpsed through the large hole that we had just blown in it.
 
At the EOHC mil surp shoot last fall, Andy was firing a rolling block and through a spotting scope I could clearly see the bullets en route and punching a hole in the target. Its not like they were lethargic, but you could see em. It was a lot of fun.

With a good high quality spotting scope you can see the air movement or a kinda "contrail" sort of effect from a high power shooter's bullet if you have the power dialed up and it's easiest if you are at his 5 o'clock or 7 o'clock.
 
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