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How Fast Do Bullets Travel?

Talyn

Talyn

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You’ve likely overheard other shooters discussing things like bullet velocity, penetration, or projectile trajectory. Depending upon the caliber, a bullet can move anywhere from 400 to 4,600 feet per second. There’s a lot more to bullet performance than just speed.

How Fast Do Bullets Travel?

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Bullet speed co exists with bullet performance. A varmint projectile should be somewhat light and fast. A dangerous game projectile should be somewhat slow and heavy. That being said. There's a big margin in "somewhat." I as well as many others on here could go on for hours discussing this subject.
 
Hickok 45 on youtube has some really good videos shooting at his range. Sometimes (with big slow pistol bullets like a .45acp) you can see the bullets arcing out to the 80 yard gong. That's a nice camera he's got there.
Bullets go faster than anyone can run or dodge (except Neo on the Matrix) so seeing them in flight is pretty rare.
 
conax said:
Hickok 45 on youtube has some really good videos shooting at his range. Sometimes (with big slow pistol bullets like a .45acp) you can see the bullets arcing out to the 80 yard gong. That's a nice camera he's got there.
Bullets go faster than anyone can run or dodge (except Neo on the Matrix) so seeing them in flight is pretty rare.
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Be a spotter at a long range rifle match…you’ll see plenty of them, if you know where to look.

In a spotting scope sited directly behind the shooter, you’ll see a brief disturbance usually at 12:00, looks like a tiny dot when the bullet hits equipoise (the moment when it stops rising in its arc, but gravity hasn’t started to pull it down). Blink and you’ll miss it…but when you do see it? Pretty cool.
 
HansGruber said:
Be a spotter at a long range rifle match…you’ll see plenty of them, if you know where to look.

In a spotting scope sited directly behind the shooter, you’ll see a brief disturbance usually at 12:00, looks like a tiny dot when the bullet hits equipoise (the moment when it stops rising in its arc, but gravity hasn’t started to pull it down). Blink and you’ll miss it…but when you do see it? Pretty cool.
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Interesting!
 
That bad guy shootin black powder? Look at all dat smoke.
George Reeves died mysteriously, I think he was murdered with his own gun.
Look that up some time when you're bored.
 
conax said:
Hickok 45 on youtube has some really good videos shooting at his range. Sometimes (with big slow pistol bullets like a .45acp) you can see the bullets arcing out to the 80 yard gong. That's a nice camera he's got there.
Bullets go faster than anyone can run or dodge (except Neo on the Matrix) so seeing them in flight is pretty rare.
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My dad used to say during boot camp at Paris Island that sometimes when the high humidity was just right, he could see the .45 bullet contrail in the humidity downrange.
He has 20/10 vision still at 83
 
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