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Hi All! I would like to capture and inspect some lead bullets. Dr Mann numbered his bullets and then shot them into snow drifts. In the spring, he picked them up off the ground...mostly undamaged. This is not practible for me. Any ideas?

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You might capture them on film before they ever hit anything. My understanding of high-speed photography is that the technique relies on a high-speed flash rather than a high-speed shutter. Do you suppose the muzzle flash of a firearm would be bright enough to set off a slave flash? H. C.

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Hi All! I would like to capture and inspect some lead bullets. Dr Mann numbered his bullets and then shot them into snow drifts. In the spring, he picked them up off the ground...mostly undamaged. This is not practible for me. Any ideas?

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I read that too.

What follows is probably a result of cabin feaver.

What I used to do (back in Iowa) was to wait until it was below 10 below for 3 weeks. That would freeze the shallow rivers. The rivers were perfectly level. That provided several hundered yards of straight shooting on a very level surface with good back stops when the river turned (banks were 10-20 feet high.

With a .357 mag shooting tin cans at 50-75 feet from crouching position you would find 20 or so feet beyond them a ridge of snow with a hole in it. Just beyond that a swell of snow with a groove in it, then more and more grooves until - there it was - the boolet. Sitting there on top of the snow. Slowed down gently and with a few crusts of ice picked up in the process. Perfect shape.

Later I did that with a 22-250 and a 308. Took MUCH longer distances to shoot almost parallel with the surface and often would loose 50% of the boolets. BUT it did work.

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