i basically think that it is either dust coming out of the barrel or the sonic boom.... in alot of slowed down fotege there is a white ball lol so no its not supernatual lol

Originally posted by RussianScientists
I'm a scientist, and I see a round off-white perfect sphere coming out of the gun at a much, much slower motion...anyone can look at it and see it is not on fire and it is not burning and yet it disappears... I'd like to hear from someone that is really, really looking closely at that ball coming out of the end of that gun.

"Anyone can look at it and see" is not a scientific approach. A more scientific approach is "Everyone is looking at it and nobody has a clue, so what can we discern from our observations?"

First of all, you should be aware that the weapon you see in this vid is a 19th Century revolver, looks like a Colt Navy 45, but don't hold me to that. Definitely 19th Century, though. In the late 19th Century, these handguns fired black-powder cartridges — and I suppose this video is demonstrating ammunition that is authentic to the weapon. Black powder produced a lot of sooty smoke, as you can see in the video. Very nasty stuff, with a lot of residual debris.

What we're looking at is a slo-mo of something that transpires in a fraction of a second — the pistol is still recoiling from the shot. It's likely that, after the initial discharge, air rushes through the barrel quite forcefully, enough so to dislodge and eject a bit of the residual debris, which exits the barrel and disintegrates...or seems to disappear.

There's a good chance that it's paper, given that paper cartridges were used in the early revolvers. Again, if this video is demonstrating a 19th Century firearm with authentic 19th Century ammunition, you could be looking at a fragile fragment of the paper cartridge.

— Doc Velocity






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Originally posted by RussianScientists
I've never seen paper debris evaporate, so that rules that idea out of existence...Good try my friend, but paper debris doesn't evaporate

Hold on, comrade. You've never seen it, so it doesn't exist? What sort of Science is that?

And why do you insist that this object is evaporating? You have no evidence of evaporation.

I contend that it is a fragment of paper debris from a paper cartridge, and that the piece of debris turns on edge, lending to the illusion that it is disappearing. Watch the video again, you will see a slight discoloration to the object just before it "disappears"... It's the angle of light changing as the paper fragment turns on edge.

— Doc Velocity

Its the primer, I can't really tell if this gun is cap and ball or cartridge but either way it is the primer...
It is meant to burn hotter and with more length, and heat to ignite the powder.......

some primers are almost like a very small phosphorous load..... and burn longer than the powder....

[edit on 16-6-2009 by Doc Holiday]

[edit on 16-6-2009 by Doc Holiday]

Come on guys, can't you just accept that bullets have spirits too?

So I guess we can just call this thread dead. If this wasn't an exercise in anal-retentive nit-picking, I don't know what is. OMG! Let's put forty different hypotheses on this tiny bit of ejecta! Where's my Nobel Prize?

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When a bullet travels through a bore...rifled or not...it makes contact with the inside of the bore. The bullet skips, twists and rubs the metal on the inside.

What results is miniscule metal shavings that burn up after the bullet has rolled over them and exited the bore.

This is an example of one.