I've seen the sun reflecting off of the base of a bullet before, with the sun low in the sky and at my back, but I've never seen this happen, where the sun was above and in front of me, and the light reflected off of the shank of the bullet to show the bullet rotating through the air.

A buddy's son was shooting, and I was spotting. Pretty cool to see.

very cool Jordan

That was way cool. Thanks for sharing that!

That is awesome!! Way cool video!

Sometimes when it's warm and humid in the early morning I can see my bullet trace, but not very often, that's a very cool video thanks for sharing. Rio7

I put my browser at the end of the 4 second mark of the video and played it back to back a few times - that is cool .

When I lived in Idaho a shooting bud and I saw it quite often at our shooting spot - sun at our back in the morning , he has a very nice Leica 65x spotter .

Yeah, as mentioned I've seen it several times with the sun at my back, but that's just the illuminated base of the bullet, and looks like a hot ember flying towards the target. This is the first time I've been able to see the gyrations of the bullet along its trajectory. Pretty neat.

cool, whats the distance?

That's only 300 meters.

I bet if you took a share and blackened one side you could see the rotation.

Great video, I really like this sort of thing, I shoot F-Class and we see the trace of others often, rarely the bullet itself or base.
We do a LOT of spotlighting here and I can’t remember a night that we don’t see some of the bullet bases shine on their way to the animal, interesting how each calibre has a different trajectory that is plainly visible.

My 44Mag carbine has a rainbow trajectory as the bullet is only seen in the light as it drops down on it’s way about half of the distance at 150mtr to the animal. Most fast calibres still have a visible arc to it’s travel though.

It amazes me how slow it actually appears, the first few times I honestly believed I was seeing something that wasn’t there, but my Uncle assured me that it was the bullet and I was seeing in real time it’s flight.

Cheers.