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Originally Posted by choctaw111
Sitting directly behind the barrel, sure.
Throughout my tenure in the Parachute Infantry (and then Mechanized), I was a SAW gunner, a 60 gunner and the 240 before I was a squad leader.
Anyway, the tracers from MY weapon appeared as dots but those from my soldiers on the flank or next to me appeared as streaks and turned into dots as they were further down range.
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This man has it right!
Of course if you are looking down the iron-sight of a firing gun... well imagine looking down the longitude of a the tracer streak, you see a dot. It is only when you catch a tracer moving at an angle to you that you can see the streak.
04-17-2011, 07:13 AM
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