Like .357 mags? I have a video for you.
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Killer Bee
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yes, yes I do!
In the "224,000 FPS" sequence, there's a little puff of hot gas/flame that exits the barrel AHEAD of the bullet - pretty interesting!
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contender
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I first thought "FPS" thinking "Feet Per Second" not "Frames Per Second."
High speed photography has come a LONG way & is amazing to watch.
High speed photography has come a LONG way & is amazing to watch.
I am trying for 224000 FPS on my .44, full case of Bullseye then compressed 250 grain Keith.
It worked once
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What is the 'blow up a truck' load for the reloader. I just bet that the felt recoil is 'interesting' from my SP 101. 
Thanks,
I've seen a lot of similar slo-mo pistol firings, and I find it quite interesting that the bullet is always long departed from the barrel before the muzzle begins to rise in recoil. :oops: Has always made me wonder how recoil can be blamed for missed shots. :unsure:
You can pretty much say the same thing for the shotgun slug firing in the second video.
I've seen a lot of similar slo-mo pistol firings, and I find it quite interesting that the bullet is always long departed from the barrel before the muzzle begins to rise in recoil. :oops: Has always made me wonder how recoil can be blamed for missed shots. :unsure:
You can pretty much say the same thing for the shotgun slug firing in the second video.
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Killer Bee
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I fired my barrett for a friend that filmed barret vs iphone and a bunch of other stuff. he used a phantom camera, I forget the fps but it would show a bullet in flight.
difficult part is timing and amount of recording time before/after trigger. I'll look for some more high speed stuff but this was handy in my dropbox.
a lot of older stuff is tough to find but here's some of his shooting slow motion and you can see the bullet in flight.
difficult part is timing and amount of recording time before/after trigger. I'll look for some more high speed stuff but this was handy in my dropbox.
a lot of older stuff is tough to find but here's some of his shooting slow motion and you can see the bullet in flight.
Side note... how many of you have actually seen a bullet in flight, not a tracer, as it travels?
I did, and I'm pretty sure it was a 357 round but could have been a 38, friend was shooting at a target probably 50 yards away very late afternoon... and I could track the rounds .... I was standing a good ways off to the side, probably 30 feet or so.
I did, and I'm pretty sure it was a 357 round but could have been a 38, friend was shooting at a target probably 50 yards away very late afternoon... and I could track the rounds .... I was standing a good ways off to the side, probably 30 feet or so.
Sky Pilot
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Saw that!
I speculated it was from superheating of air ahead of the suddenly accelerated bullet -- heated by the crush effect -- then I thought maybe hot gases of combustion driving around the bullet just before it made a bore seal -- then I realized ...
... a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and I know just enough to get in trouble ...
... so I quit speculating and contented myself with, "Wow, that's cool!"
Run you cameras as video and then select the frames you want to save. You can see the ball in a grey cloud before the main blast leaves the muzzle. Taken with an old Sony video tape camera.
It's rather common, given certain circumstances. I've noticed bullets in flight if standing rather behind the shooter, with the sun essentially behind us, and a good background. I've seen bullets from my own .45 Colt rounds before . . . relatively slow bullets. The trajectory is obvious.
This is more common when shooting "at distance" because the bullet is "in view" for a "longer" period of time.
Speaking of video... couple of years ago I filmed an explosion of Tenerite and when you watch the film there is no fire or flame just a big bang and a lot of white smoke... there is one frame in the entire video that shows a fireball about 30 feet horizontally in both directions....it can't be scene while watching but can if you stop it at just that one frame.
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No wonder my old hands don't appreciate shooting 357s in my 2.25" SP101.
Rifles, 308, 3006 and even .223s at 600 yd line you can watch them all. Best to sit behind and higher than the shooter. As I recall it takes around 1 second to reach target. Its the air disturbance the bullet makes that's visible.
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I have frequently seen .38 wadcutters in flight, as well as .45 acp .
lipofsky
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Many many years ago wile in the Navy, we flew over the the USS New Jersey when she was off the coast of Lebanon, she fired the big guns and it was impressive, we watched the 16" shell traveling through the air, we felt the concussion from the gun blast and we were about 4K feet above her. unfortunately I have no video as no video recording devices were permitted on our airplane.
We were on a mission with our armored column stopped on a jungle road when we heard artillery flying overhead, maybe 500 ft above us, from what I would guess 6” or 8” shells. The low rhythmic whooshing noise as they went over was what got our attention. We never heard them fired, but their next salvo found an unintended target, or resupply hopper with food ammo and worst of all the mail. I suspect the poor guys in the chopper never knew what hit them.
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That happens with EVERY cartridge based firearm. It really shouldn't happen with a muzzle loader, but I haven't seen any slo-mo footage to confirm it.
coachk64
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When I was a coach on the rifle range in the Marines we would hunch down behind the shooter with binoculars and you could watch the bullet all the way to the target, even calling the general placement of the hit before the butts displayed the spot.
Also shooting the 8" howitzer, standing right behind the muzzle, and if there was enough breeze to blow the smoke away, you could watch the projectile disappear into the sky. But since they shoot a max of 26 miles you couldn't track it to the target of course.
Also shooting the 8" howitzer, standing right behind the muzzle, and if there was enough breeze to blow the smoke away, you could watch the projectile disappear into the sky. But since they shoot a max of 26 miles you couldn't track it to the target of course.
Have seen lots of pistol bullets in flight. Lighting position relative to the bullet flight path is key.
We’d sometimes see rounds from M16 but they were much more of a “streak” than the pistol rounds were.
Interesting thing we’d sometimes see with M16 rounds… Sometimes we’d see a gray “puff” a short distance downrange. Definitely wasn’t bullet hitting the berm. Can only think it came from the bullet spinning off its jacket and self destructing the lead core. This was military 55 gr ball out of Colt M16’s.
We’d sometimes see rounds from M16 but they were much more of a “streak” than the pistol rounds were.
Interesting thing we’d sometimes see with M16 rounds… Sometimes we’d see a gray “puff” a short distance downrange. Definitely wasn’t bullet hitting the berm. Can only think it came from the bullet spinning off its jacket and self destructing the lead core. This was military 55 gr ball out of Colt M16’s.
It a great learning video how bullets work. I’m curious if certain “twist” on rifles or pistols make such a different on the bullet. Is there a twist in pistols or more pronounced from rifles due to the trajectory?
I missed the school bell and showed up during second period
Discard that commit as we learned the most important thing is to keep it cleaned.
I guess I read something about Shultz and Larsen had a special twist that others don’t have, so I jumped the gun.
I missed the school bell and showed up during second period
Discard that commit as we learned the most important thing is to keep it cleaned.
I guess I read something about Shultz and Larsen had a special twist that others don’t have, so I jumped the gun.
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Years ago we were shooting 45 acp hardball near a large reservoir. No one else around. We started shooting up at about a 45 degree angle pulled our earmuffs off and listened to the plunk noise of bullet hitting water. It took much less time than I thought it would to hear it.
The photo i took of the black powder breech loading cannon had the projectile seated against the rifling and the powder in a cartridge case shows the ball ahead of the main blast. If you notice the barrels muzzle is slightly depressed with the recoil impulse.
