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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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.)