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From: btree!hale@UCSD.EDU (Bob Hale)
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Subject: Re: amazing revelations
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:04:16 GMT
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In article <35135@mimsy.umd.edu> purtilo@cs.umd.edu writes:
#
#This note is in the "gee, maybe you all knew this, but I didn't so let me
#share my surprize with you" category.  I shot a rifle match down at Quantico
#yesterday:  one full NM match in the morning with my club team, then a leg
#match in the afternoon.  While scoring for shooters on the relay after mine,
#out on the 600 yard line, I was amazed to discover I could *see* the bullet
#trajectory and call the shot without seeing the hole in the target.

I have noticed the same effect with shot.  On a clear, warm day I was
sometimes able to see a dark spot in the sky where the shot was
traveling.  As it travelled it spread out until I could no longer
see the dark spot (or until the shot would hit the clay pigeon).
I never was able to see the shot when standing off to the side of the
shooter.

I don't know if we were observing the same effect.  Perhaps someone
on this group has a handle on the phenomenon.

Bob Hale                        ...!ucsd!btree!hale
619-535-3234                    ...!btree!hale@ucsd.edu