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Hi Bob, I have been thinking about making videos just for my own personal use to try and see what is happening to the trajectory of my pellets after they leave the gun, but I really don't know where to start. I have a Motorola xt 925-6 with 32 gigs of memory and was thinking about getting a side shot mount to hold it. But that's about as far as I have gotten and I don't know what else I would need. Not even sure about how to get the videos off the phone to my computer so I could use editing software on it. BTW, what editing software are you using and what do you think would be the easiest to learn. I know it will probably be a fairly rough learning curve, but I am retired and have a little bit of time on my hands. Any help would be appreciated.

John
 
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The Crown being fully adjustable for power is great!! I have a bunch of slugs on hand....just waiting for the Slug-X liner.

One of my newer permissions has the perfect layout for long distance silo shooting as well as pasture shooting.

:)

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Wyeth,

It's the Athlon Argos BTR 6-24x50 FFP. I have two of them....the other is on my 6.5 Creedmoor.

Kc, ls,

It's called ShotCut, not sure how good it is but it works for me right now. I have been using Windows Movie Maker until today.....too many glitches for some reason.

As far as tracking pellets, that has to do a lot with frames per second, lighting and color of background.

With the sun behind you, it will light up the pellet very nicely. If you will be doing it on the range, a dark background is best. When I do some accuracy testing of the slugs (100yds), I will use a large black board to put the target on, and I'll place the target at the bottom of the board....this way you can see the pellet as soon as it comes into focus and the rest of the way down to the target.

Another good way is to shoot into an overcast or blue sky.....the pellet will be black against it, especially if the sun is from the side as it will create a shadow in the skirt of the pellet. Here are a couple of videos that show what I'm talking about.

https://youtu.be/GiYVaUh0K9w

https://youtu.be/x9P4kfzSmVo






 
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I'm going to mount my Streamlight Railmount HL-X to the scope at the range. 1000 lumens in a spot beam should help to light up the pellet.
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I believe it was @Hajimoto that had a post about filming pellet flight. He would stick the pellets in a thin foam board (think foldable foam that is about 1/4" or so thick) such that the very tail end of the skirt of the pellet was *just* under the level of the foam. Essentially, the pellet is pushed fully into the foam. He then did a VERY light mist of flat white spray paint over the foam which would put a fine mist of paint into the hollow of the skirt of the pellet. No paint on the pellet where it could come in contact with the barrel.

This made it super easy to see the pellet in flight - might want to look up his video. Thought I'd mention it...seems applicable...but maybe you've already seen it.


Scott
 
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Had a farm visit with the Crown yesterday. Worked with the new software some more this morning and got most of a new video done. 

Won't be anything real special as I'm still getting used to the new user interface, but there will be many more shots than this short video.

Thanks everyone for your patience!

I'll have it up this evening after work.

:)
 
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