leadcounsel
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At my range at night with the overhead flood lights i can see 9mm and .40 fmjs out to past 100 yards.
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- Thread starter candlejackstraw
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Artillery nearly doubled in the early 80's ..... I think there was a correlation there .......
Doubled? They were shooting the 280MM in the early fifties. It could be said they shot it twice, meaning they shot it for the first time and the last time. Big guns like airplanes had names, the one at Ft. Sill was confused with one in Germany. Seems the one in Germany had an accident and was rebuilt? It could have gone down a hill without enough brakes.
F. Guffey
If you sit beside a shooter and watch thru a spotting scope, you can see 'em easier. Experienced this phenomenon years ago while helping my son sight in a new .45 Colt revolver. Could watch every shot virtually from the barrel to the target. It works well if you are shooting at reactive targets and want to know where you are missing.
This has been my experience as well. We usually spot for each other when we're metallic silhouette shooting, and when the light is right you can see just about every shot.
If you fire a supersonic bullet when conditions are near the dew point, you get the flash vapor a jet breaking the sound barrier does. It forms and vanishes rapidly. However, momentarily condensed water vapor is not copper-colored, and many is the time I've seen the copper base of a bullet putting in a flash appearance through a sight, or watched a copper streak from a .45 Auto move from gun to target when the light conditions were right. People who blink or shut their eyes as they fire, miss out on this experience.
Jelly Bryce claimed the secret of his ability to point shoot onto bullseye targets and win local police matches shooting from the hip was entirely due to his having been born with fast sight perception. He said he could see every handgun bullet he shot under normal light conditions, and feedback from that is how he corrected his point shooting and made it consistent. Lack of that "speed sight" is how he explained being unable to teach others to point shoot nearly as well as he did. His favorite chambering was .44 Special.
Jelly Bryce claimed the secret of his ability to point shoot onto bullseye targets and win local police matches shooting from the hip was entirely due to his having been born with fast sight perception. He said he could see every handgun bullet he shot under normal light conditions, and feedback from that is how he corrected his point shooting and made it consistent. Lack of that "speed sight" is how he explained being unable to teach others to point shoot nearly as well as he did. His favorite chambering was .44 Special.
The sun comes up directly to my back at the range where I shoot. Early in the AM, when the sun is just right I can do the same with 22's and handgun bullets. Can't do it unless the sun is just right. I've never seen a center fire bullet in flight, but slower loads, lots of times.
Jim Watson
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If you sit behind a long range rifle shooter with a spotting scope, you can see the "trace" of the bullet all the time that its trajectory puts it in your scope's field of view. It is not fire from a tracer bullet, nor is it the glint off the base of a backlighted bullet. It is the refraction pattern of the shockwave of the fast moving bullet. See Schlieren photography.