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oughtsix Global Moderator ASSRA Board Member Offline Posts: 1361 Location: Columbus Joined: May 31^st, 2009	Idea for bullet capture Feb 19^th, 2019 at 5:22pm	Print Post
	Does any one have access to a high speed camera? An extreme slo mo cast lead/alloy bullet exiting the barrel may show any change the bullet suffers whilst being shot and you won't have the trauma of being caught in any thing. Other than that what about ballistic gel the MythBusters used to shoot rounds into? I need a good excuse as to why I shoot poorly

	Life Member ASSRA, OGCA & TSGC I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters........ Frank Lloyd Wright
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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3780 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #1 - Feb 19^th, 2019 at 6:24pm	Print Post
	I am thinking shoot straight up and catch the bullet in a baseball mitt. Maybe fit tiny parachutes to the base. Might work! Jack


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4465 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #2 - Feb 19^th, 2019 at 6:32pm	Print Post
	At something over 200 fps better be a kevlar mitt;-)


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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3963 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #3 - Feb 19^th, 2019 at 7:10pm	Print Post
	Use your buddy's chrono and ballistic program to figure out how far you bullet will go and set soft pad with a cotton layer on it for the bullet to gently drift to a stop upon. Pick up the bullet in its layer of cotton and Voila!. Cost-20 cents. Impress your ASSRA group-priceless.


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Ponderosa Paul Junior Member Offline Posts: 69 Joined: Nov 17^th, 2013	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #4 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 9:07am	Print Post
	When I was 18 y.o. I accidently shot a 94 win. 30-30 in my bedroom .The bullet went through a piece of furniture and into the attic storage area ending up in a box of rags. I found the bullet and it was in perfect shape. I often wondered if I shot a cast bullet into a box of rags if it would end up in good shape. I learned a lesson that day never to load a gun inside.


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CoalCreek Davis Newbie Offline Posts: 8 Location: Bagley, Iowa Joined: Nov 29^th, 2011	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #5 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 9:12am	Print Post
	If you live in an area with snow, you can shoot bullets into a large drift. Then pick them up off the ground after or as the snow melts. I have done this many times and the bullets are perfect.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18036 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #6 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 11:47am	Print Post
	Shoot it straight up, and catch it as it stalls, and before it begins to fall!

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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3963 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #7 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 1:10pm	Print Post
	I like Vall's plan. Get that buddy to calculate how *HIGH* the bullet will go and wait for it there. Or, just go shoot it through the bedroom and pick it from garage rags. That's supposed to work, too.


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GT Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2368 Location: Northeast Wyoming Joined: Jun 28^th, 2015	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #8 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 1:27pm	Print Post
	Last winter when cabin fever hit hardest, my son and I come up with some ideas to catch pictures of a bullet in flight. The first three attempts didn't work, but the fourth was showing promise... I picked up a higher end Cannon digital camera, built a photo cabinet to shoot through, we made a disc with holes around a calculated diameter spinning at a rate that gave us a frequency (with a high intensity light behind the disc) that should stop a speeding bullet in a timed exposure... we had a streak in the picture so there was some tweaking to do yet, then it got nice out and we never got back to it. So who knows if it will work. '06- if you want to dive down that rabbit hole and give us a report, I'll send you some details Greg

	"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" T. A. Edison "The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right" M.T.
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joeb33050 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2613 Location: Marathon, FL Joined: Apr 20^th, 2004	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #9 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 1:41pm	Print Post
	Taking pictures of a bullet in flight is easy; I was the gun supplier in the early 60s. Then, a GR Strobotach, a microphone and a Polaroid camera did it. Set the gun up, the microphone keys the Strobotach, The strobotach fires one flash of light. All in the dark, camera shutter open, the distance from the gun determines where the light flash comes/where the bullet is when photographed. The glass wire insulatore broke when shot, we were photographing bullets hitting a PLASTIC insulator, that didn't break. Advertising photos. My guess is that it's easy to find a photographer who can do it easier/better today. Search on EDGERTON high speed photographs, he started it all.


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SBoomer Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 1021 Location: Michigan's Frozen North (U.P.) Joined: Jan 28^th, 2010	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #10 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 1:58pm	Print Post
	Pink Floyd approved.....


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SBoomer Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 1021 Location: Michigan's Frozen North (U.P.) Joined: Jan 28^th, 2010	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #11 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 1:59pm	Print Post
	Another option. Calling for another 6" today.


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GT Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2368 Location: Northeast Wyoming Joined: Jun 28^th, 2015	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #12 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 2:12pm	Print Post
	I like the "Wall" I haven't taken any pictures of my range lately but with the wind we've had, I have a natural wall at the 25 yard bench at least that high... We looked at Edgerton's site, got some ideas off it. The strobotach readily available for a couple hundred $$ would handle rpm's to 10K - that would give one view, we were chasing multiple views in a window so we were needing something in a 30K+ rpm range and the cost went up exponentially. Clarity of the bullet that the OP is asking for comes with more $$ we discovered too.

	"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" T. A. Edison "The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right" M.T.
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GT Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2368 Location: Northeast Wyoming Joined: Jun 28^th, 2015	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #13 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 2:14pm	Print Post
	As I mentioned in another post, folks further north are enduring more winter than I, but I'm still going to complain. Your pictures prove it.

	"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" T. A. Edison "The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right" M.T.
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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4465 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: Idea for bullet capture Reply #14 - Feb 20^th, 2019 at 2:46pm	Print Post
	The minimum duration of some standard camera electronic flash units at minimum power is 1/20,000 of a second so a shot taken of a bullet at 1300 fps might have the bullet traveling only about .0008 inches.


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