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    Boolit Mold
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    Flash

    A few years ago I got a new iPhone. I found it had a new “burst” mode. At first I found it really annoying because it just sucked up my storage. I looked into it and found it takes about 10 photos per second.

    One night I was out shooting at dusk and saw a prominent flash as we we shooting. I remembered the burst mode on my camera and gave it a try. Here’s the result.

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    The first one is a 38 S&W 638, the second is 357 mag S&W 686, and the third is a 308. This summer I’d like to try my 1911 45.

    The key is the light level. Even with burst mode, it takes a few tries to catch it. If your camera has a similar feature, give it a try.

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    Gee-whiz is there a barrel on that 686!!
    It might be from the angle, but is some of that the cylinder gap?

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    Czech_to - good eye, there is a quite large cylinder gap. Most of what you can see is from the gap. This was a 686 Pro Series with a 5” slab side barrel. When I shot it, it had an awkward twisting kick to it. I’m guessing it was from the rifling and the inertia from accelerating the spin on the bullet combined with a relatively light weight barrel. Not knowing much about completion guns, maybe that’s the way it was supposed to be. Bottom line, it wasn’t much fun to shoot. For those reasons I traded it for a 45ACP 1911, which I enjoy shooting much better!

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    Cool.
    I had a 6" S&W 586 with a very 'generous' cylinder gap too. I guess that's normal for them.

    Catch that flash with loads of a slow powder coming out a short barrel. It's impressive!
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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check