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Originally Posted by Richie
English spelling is used in Canada and also I want to smack a kid when he says "Zee" instead of "Zed" Zee is a US invention.
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"Zed's dead, Baby. Zed's dead."
Tracers if I may summarize:
Yes, all of those guns are rifled (someone asked). The bullets are spinning around the longitudinal axis (basically). The spirals of smoke you see are from chemicals within the tracer rounds burning. The spiral effect is probably because the escaping gases from the burning chemicals are coming through an offset hole in the back of the projectile.
The rear end of the projectile itself is definitely NOT rotating that far off center. The smoke/spiral effect is just enhanced as the smoke spreads. If bullets wobbled that much they would lose energy far too quickly (like round balls shot out of a smooth bore).
Camera shake is something entirely different. When the camera is shaking due to subsequently fired rounds, the rounds appear to zigzag or vibrate.
Not all tracers trail clearly visible smoke. It depends on the chemicals used (as does color). There is a lot of guncam footage from American planes where little to no smoke is visible.
Check this out:
Personally, I hate the smoke from German ammo. Way too much I think but from guncam footage I have seen, probably pretty close to accurate.
Splitter
11-19-2010, 11:40 PM
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