The photographer says the speed used was 1/8000. The streak in the picture is a foot or more long. My understanding is that the fastest bullets travel 4000 fps. If it was the fastest bullet possible it would travel 1/2 foot or 6 inches in the picture, which is closer to Trump's shoulder width than the long streak shown. This was probably a slower bullet. Is this picture more fuckery?
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Most 223 rounds away from muzzle velocity are going to be under 3000 fps, and in the right conditions all bullets will leave a vapor trail / bullet trace. The camera shutter speed would have shown the trail although maybe not the actual bullet. I didn't see the bullet in the pic. I saw the vapor trail.
The Sony 1A (I think) shoots really good video. It could have been caught on video and frame grabbed. Not sure how to calculate the fps (photo) / (ballistic) fps? Haven't found a hi-res pic worth running through ELA analysis. EXIF data can be manipulated.
Yeah I remember firing some hot 44 magnum loads (probably about 1700 fps) out of my lever-action rifle that I had a laser mounted on at the time and the beam lit up a vapor trail all the way out to the end of the range which was 25 yards so I imagine vapor will still be visible in the right lighting conditions for every further.
(If you don't know what I mean, a laser beam is only visible when passing through a scattering medium like smoke or fog. The rounds I fired left enough of a vapor trail that the laser was visible for over 25 yards.)