Watching the ball reach the target.

[DesG]

A comment was made on another thread about seeing the ball/bullet travelling from the gun. Here is a pic which was totally unplanned (taken from video clip) of my .577 cannon in full voice. I don@t know to this day what caused the tracer effect and have repeatedly tried to do it again with no success.

https://i.postimg.cc/xjpTHBK1/Long18-tracer.jpgupload an image

[enfield2band]

A comment was made on another thread about seeing the ball/bullet travelling from the gun. Here is a pic which was totally unplanned (taken from video clip) of my .577 cannon in full voice. I don@t know to this day what caused the tracer effect and have repeatedly tried to do it again with no success.

https://i.postimg.cc/xjpTHBK1/Long18-tracer.jpgupload an image

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The tracer effect could be burning lubricant or the wad, if you use one.

A friend of mine made wads out of carpet felt for his single shot .44" pistol. They were well greased and when he fired the gun the rear of the wad ignited and left a smoke trail to the target. It was quite impressive. Because he had used so much soft grease the wad stuck to the ball.

When i have watched someone through a spotting scope shooting a .577" at 100 yards you can see the bullet drop into the target, or should I say curl into the target as it is rotating from the rifling.

[airgunnut]

If your interested I have a YouTube channel where I have a number if vids of various guns going off in slow motion, including one where the muzzle brake on my mosin nagant parts company with the gun all due to cheap Chinese screws and physics (nothing hit the inside of the muzzle brake) look for airgunnut mosin nagant

[tacfoley]

As a long-time shooter of comparatively low-velocity ball and bullet, I admit that I get a real kick out of watching other folks shooting THEIR BP stuff, and there is one thing that has always puzzled me.

Catching a glimp of a big old Minié bullet in flight, as you do if you kinda unfocus your eye and track it, they always seem to be to be a gleaming golden-coloured, rather than the shiny silver that you would expect.

V. odd, that.

[airgunnut]

As a long-time shooter of comparatively low-velocity ball and bullet, I admit that I get a real kick out of watching other folks shooting THEIR BP stuff, and there is one thing that has always puzzled me.

Catching a glimp of a big old Minié bullet in flight, as you do if you kinda unfocus your eye and track it, they always seem to be to be a gleaming golden-coloured, rather than the shiny silver that you would expect.

V. odd, that.

No not very odd, the ball/bullet has just gone from ambient temp to a few hundred deg C and has a coating of soot, if that don't change the colour of the projectile, not sure what will.

[DesG]

No not very odd, the ball/bullet has just gone from ambient temp to a few hundred deg C and has a coating of soot, if that don't change the colour of the projectile, not sure what will.

A few hundred degrees C? Soot? You’ve been watching too much star wars!