An afternoon of shooting - filmed with the drone

Yesterday, I decided I really needed to get back into a regular shooting regimen. Since it was so warm out, I waited till later in the afternoon when it cooled off a bit. That didn't leave me much time to shoot, so I narrowed down my choices to my 221 Fireball Encore and my recently returned S&W Model 460.

The Fireball was pretty easy. Apart from being slightly high, it's still sighted in. Even though I haven't shot it in months, I still managed a decent group.




My Model 460 required quite a few adjustments, but toward the end of my range session I sent three 200 grain FTX handloads into this group:



Still needs a bit of adjustment, but I was running out of daylight.



Just for the heck of it, I had my Phantom 4 hovering nearby to capture the shot and recoil of the two handguns. I pulled three frames from the video showing the moment prior to the shot, the moment of the shot, and the peak muzzle rise following the shot. First with the Fireball:









As you can see, there's not much recoil. Now with the 460:









As the sun came close to setting, I began to wonder whether I could use the drone to capture the 460's muzzle flash. While filming 1080p at 30 frames per second didn't capture the flash in the first video, I decided to set it to 1080p at 120 frames per second. Additionally, I had the drone hover about 10 feet in front of me and 2 feet above my line of sight. I was quite pleased with the results:







I honestly didn't expect it to work so well.

Well done!!

What rest are you using?

It's a C&J Machine XP rest.

Lol......fun.

Very nice. Did the muzzle blast rock the drone?

It did. Not much, but enough that it was noticeable even with the gimbal stabilized camera.

FLAME ON! Cool pic, Chance.

Nice photo's. Are you left eye dominate?

Yep, right handed but left eye dominant. One reason I prefer handguns over rifles.

That is about a perfect bench design for a handgun. I have never seen a square one before.

That could be a Bag Killer if you got the cylinder to close to it. I have killed a couple with my 480 SRH. I see you are rested well out on the barrel.

Very impressive muzzle blast. That is one Baaaad Revolver.

Bob

I had that table built specifically for benchrest handgun and rifle shooting.

You're right about that cylinder flash. I've shredded quite a few things that got too close to the cylinder gap while shooting in the past.

Now I just need to get a similar shot, this time from the side.

Great pics!

That is just too much fun. Really cool.

Way too 😎

That's cool. You could fly it down to check the targets, too.

I actually did try that. The issue is it has obstacle sensors on the front that will stop the drone automatically before it runs into something. Unfortunately, that also means it won't let me close enough to the target to get a good picture.