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Tracers on New Year’s Eve!
Ok, I was reading the thread about shooting on New Years Eve, so thought I’d share what I shot for New Years.
The difference is I went WELL BEFORE sunrise to do the shooting on Saturday morning since I got some night vision (PVS-14) for Christmas. The timing was right to go and test out a few things.
I confirmed zero and shot some steel with an IR laser on a rifle, tested out how an RMR works on a handgun with the NV (which is surprisingly not very difficult or awkward), then broke out my old GoPro 4 and some 9mm tracers.
Below are some pics I took with that GoPro. It was quite dark out, but with the GoPro I can leave the shutter open for up to 30 seconds, and it collects any light it picks up during that 30 seconds. It makes the tracers look like lasers and also makes it almost appear light outside as it sucks in all of that light for a long period. I linked the GoPro to my phone, would get in position to shoot, the press record on the phone.
I’ve done this before several years ago, but only had a flashlight before, which made for some very dark shooting when trying to still get a pic like this that is not all washed out. With the new night vision, I can shoot with all visible lights out and yet can aim quite easily.
This is shooting 3 shots at a rubber dummy. I shot once, moved 6 paces, shot, moved 6 paces again, and shot. You can barely make out my silhouette if you look hard at where each round began.
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This one is 5 rounds at 5 steel targets. I loaded up a mag with red and green tracers, and you can see the different colors in succession if you look hard.
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This one is obviously all greens
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This last one is shooting at a large spinner target. The point of the target is to place and time your shots just right to get it to spin the full 360 degrees. There was a thread a while back about the spinner targets and the question of where rounds may ricochet upon impact at all of the different angles. I believe @Ethank bought one as well. This kinda shows how a lead projectile may break up and in what directions. Not the end all be all of course, but shows one possibility. I did get it spinning but the GoPro obviously doesn’t pick up the full spin. I tried to spread some cyalume on it, but it got too late for that when I finally got the idea as the sun was beginning to rise.
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The difference is I went WELL BEFORE sunrise to do the shooting on Saturday morning since I got some night vision (PVS-14) for Christmas. The timing was right to go and test out a few things.
I confirmed zero and shot some steel with an IR laser on a rifle, tested out how an RMR works on a handgun with the NV (which is surprisingly not very difficult or awkward), then broke out my old GoPro 4 and some 9mm tracers.
Below are some pics I took with that GoPro. It was quite dark out, but with the GoPro I can leave the shutter open for up to 30 seconds, and it collects any light it picks up during that 30 seconds. It makes the tracers look like lasers and also makes it almost appear light outside as it sucks in all of that light for a long period. I linked the GoPro to my phone, would get in position to shoot, the press record on the phone.
I’ve done this before several years ago, but only had a flashlight before, which made for some very dark shooting when trying to still get a pic like this that is not all washed out. With the new night vision, I can shoot with all visible lights out and yet can aim quite easily.
This is shooting 3 shots at a rubber dummy. I shot once, moved 6 paces, shot, moved 6 paces again, and shot. You can barely make out my silhouette if you look hard at where each round began.
This one is 5 rounds at 5 steel targets. I loaded up a mag with red and green tracers, and you can see the different colors in succession if you look hard.
This one is obviously all greens
This last one is shooting at a large spinner target. The point of the target is to place and time your shots just right to get it to spin the full 360 degrees. There was a thread a while back about the spinner targets and the question of where rounds may ricochet upon impact at all of the different angles. I believe @Ethank bought one as well. This kinda shows how a lead projectile may break up and in what directions. Not the end all be all of course, but shows one possibility. I did get it spinning but the GoPro obviously doesn’t pick up the full spin. I tried to spread some cyalume on it, but it got too late for that when I finally got the idea as the sun was beginning to rise.
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Thanks Ethank. It was my first time shooting pistol with NV, and was surprised how it went smoother than what I thought it would. It really picks up the dot nicely and somewhat naturally. I ordered a little IR light for pistols I don’t have dots on, but don’t think I’ll like it as much.
Thank you, and no, I don’t think it was a ricochet at my feet. I think the rounds were just not beginning to ”trace” immediately out of the barrel, so there is a gap. On that spinner, I was shooting one round high and the next round low, so two separate projections.
I remember those days in the butts as well. Felt pretty safe in there, but the rounds were sure flying close overhead, with the occasional splash of dirt from someone shooting too low.
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