Great Balls of Fire

[Jonesy814]

Had my new to me 2.5 inch 686 out the other day. It was bright and sunny and we filmed some shots in slo-mo at 120 frames per second with my Iphone. These shots were a 125gr Hornady XTP with 21.1gr on Winchester 296 powder. Win 296 has a reputation for muzzle flash, especially from a short barrel. Goodness, Gracious ........

 

[ms6852]

That is a pretty extreme way to light a cigarette. If you are shooting full loads .357 it is to be expected out of a 2.5'' barrel once in a while I get them out of my 6" barrel.

BTW great pictures off of your phone.

 

[Cokeman]

That ring is awesome

 

[Jonesy814]

Actually I uploaded the video to my PC then using windows video player I was able to advance the video frame by frame. When I got a frame I want I took a picture of the screen, so its a picture of a picture

 

[Jonesy814]

That ring is awesome

The ring was visible for 10-15 feet before it faded from view on film. I want to do this again on an overcast day

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Try it at night and see if there are any UFO sightings reported the next day.

 

[bannockburn]

Jonesy814

Very cool looking! Nice job with the photos from your video!

 

[Armored farmer]

Very cool fireballs and halos



Son gets good effects by using burst mode on his iPhone.
He took these of some club members that attended my annual shoot

 

[entropy]

I got a cool one of a British gent shooting my AMD-65.......


Jonsey, your loads remind me of my compressed loads of Blue Dot with 125 JHP's.

 

[Jim K]

My vote for an "interesting" muzzle flash is a Rifle No.5 (Jungle Carbine) with the flash hider sawed off and firing the old .303 cordite loads. Now that is awesome. The flame is about 3 feet in diameter and more in length, with purple, red, orange and yellow colors. The show at night is really spectacular, and proves that the actual reason for a flash hider is not to conceal the flash from an enemy but to keep the shooter from being blinded by his own rifle fire.

Jim

 

[armoredman]

Down, down, down, into a burning ring of fire! Sorry, had a Cash moment. Nice work, thanks for sharing!

 

[il.bill]

Neat pictures.
I never really think about how much heat handguns are producing ... until I am out shooting on a 98 degree F summer afternoon!

 

[Dave T]

farmer, you son's pictures define the old term "flash in the pan".

Dave

 

[Jim NE]

Very Cool. So cool, it deserves a song:



You thought I was going to post Jerry Lee Lewis, didn't you?

 

[Jonesy814]

Was out after sunset tonight for some more shooting and filming. I'll post more once I edit some stills out of the video. Did some slow motion at 240 frames per second.