What a tracer should look like (before spazzing just look).

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by choctaw111

I stumbled upon this vid today. It shows tracers during the day and at night from the same vantage point on a LAV.
The cameraman pans around during the shooting and I believe this give the best impression yet of what tracers really do look like as the camera seems to record very close to what the human eye sees or at least what my eyes have seen.

Thats pretty accurate, the only exception being that they look a tiny bit wider in the footage than I think they should be on a .50, but as you note they are still thinner then in game. Also in rl they are slightly narrower but more intense, but as you can see in the footage the tracer becomes shorter as it moves away from you, it will also be shorter the further you are from it in distance at a 90 degree angle.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Thats pretty accurate, the only exception being that they look a tiny bit wider in the footage than I think they should be on a .50, but as you note they are still thinner then in game. Also in rl they are slightly narrower but more intense, but as you can see in the footage the tracer becomes shorter as it moves away from you, it will also be shorter the further you are from it in distance at a 90 degree angle.

oh for the love of god... that's not a .50cal, that's a 7.62 one, the .50 cal is in the end.

Another thing that "experts" don't probably know is that nowadays there are three kinds of tracers: bright, semi-bright and dim.

Once again, please bear in mind the RAF standard order of the era:

"Browning 303s fire 1200 rounds per minute, that's 20 per second. As mentioned above, what you see also depends on the number of tracers loaded. If you have a tracer every 5 rounds then that's 4 tracers streaking away every second."

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

oh for the love of god... that's not a .50cal, that's a 7.62 one, the .50 cal is in the end.

Another thing that "experts" don't probably know is that nowadays there are three kinds of tracers: bright, semi-bright and dim.

Once again, please bear in mind the RAF standard order of the era:

"Browning 303s fire 1200 rounds per minute, that's 20 per second. As mentioned above, what you see also depends on the number of tracers loaded. If you have a tracer every 5 rounds then that's 4 tracers streaking away every second."

Mr genius I was talking about the .50 cal at the end, not the APC gun ffs. As for your other comments, are you talking to yourself? I never commented on that, I am only comparing them to what I have seen once in RL. But I am sure you were there in 1940 to compare the tracers right?