I seen my pellets in the air,

The sun was probably at just the right angle to reflect off the pellets for ya. sweet! Bill

Nice! 

Being able to see projectiles is really fun. I do the same using a 24 x magnification scope. Discovery brand in my case.. 
At my sportsman's club, we have a 300 yard rifle range, and I usually shoot the 300 yard metal 'gong' plate w/ my .22LRs. 
With high magnification, those rounds can be followed too, and seen as they arc, slow, drop, and hit the targets.. 

It's really neat!



Sam -

I love being able to see the pellets fly. Sure does help when you miss so you can make an adjustment for the next shot.

Here’s some tips to seeing them fly.

1. Yes a good scope helps & you must be bench rested, on a bipod or best way for you to shoot stationary as the eye will catch movement better.

2. Big secret: shoot at night or early morning with a bright spot/flood light set up behind & over you shining down range on target. Not shining in your ocular bell.

3. Crosman Premiers are shinier & harder because they use 2% tin which, is shiny.

4. Some videos have said to use dayglow paint marker on skirt & cup. I’ve never tried this but there are markers that you can do this with to pellets then expose to a bright light (pellets held in a styrofoam holder head down, light above) will definitely glow in the dark. No spot/ flood light wanted behind you if doing this. Just a work light with extension cord up close to target shining on it.

You had a clear sky uninterrupted view. Snow fields are great for this as dark stands out against pure white & if snow is powdered a visual report on hits is given. If packed, hard frozen snow, .177’s will be very hard to see but .22 & bigger are quite easy.

Glad you got to see them fly. The entire camera on your scope thing gives lots of info but I am not putting it all on a rifle or buying it all.

A large $1.00 piece of thick artist paper at Dollar store works well also. Just shoot & then use 1st hole as target. Unless you need competition target paper I also use a ream of card stock printing paper.

I have seen this too. Lighting probably plays a part (direction). I remember as a kid seeing my bb's flying with naked eye

but im sure they were slower fps and younger eyes

I only see mine shooting at longer yardage. I have used a white Sharpie paint pen as mentioned above and it really does work.

Light. As pointed out above. The closer to directly behind you the better. Near perfect being target is 1" to the side of the shadow of your head. 

I intentionally go to a place to hip shoot PB hand guns like a 9mm @ 10-15+ yards and see every bullet no problem. Like bright tracers.

The sun is directly behind me when I do this. 

Most of our airgun scopes have a shallow depth of field in focus.

Under ideal conditions, I don't see but a glimpse of my pellets as they fly through that focused spot usually.

I'd rarely see the the pellet in flight.I always shot springers. Now that I have a PCP I see them all the time.

Rifle mounted lamp at night you'll see them everytime. Generally less wind at nioght and all around less distractions, good clean fun.



John

A few years ago I built my "Bird Buster" indoor-barn air rifle. It is a .177 Crosman Nighstalker (semi-auto) that I converted to back bottle HPA. It has a 12 shot mag, 1X dot sight and I mounted a bright light on the right side of the fore end. When shooting Crosman pellets with the light on in a dark barn or silo you can see every pellet streak towards the bird. It got to be fun going in with a full mag, light on and trying to shoot pigeons in flight. The pellets showed up so well they were like tracers and you could "walk" in your shots. I need to pull that air rifle out again.