This may sound incredibly naive, but with a tracer bullet like the ones in this video, you see them coming from so far away, could you actually dodge them? Or at the least, know when to duck as you see them half way across the battlefield?

whoa - tracer bullets are neat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_ammunition

>> ^ponceleon:

This may sound incredibly naive, but with a tracer bullet like the ones in this video, you see them coming from so far away, could you actually dodge them? Or at the least, know when to duck as you see them half way across the battlefield?


Lets go test your theory.

Well, for every tracer round you see there are regular bullets too.

I wouldn't be standing around when tracers can be seen, because there are other projectiles in the air too.

Nordlich is right. Tracer bullets are expensive. So, for every tracer bullet you see, there's 30, 50, or 100 other bullets you don't see. Dodging would be impossible.

the tracers are loaded up every 5th round in the m16, every 10th in the fully automatic S.A.W. What those fellas needed was one well placed round of artey, would have saved them alot of time, I suspect they went a little trigger happy, a shame because I bet the enemy just wandered off to shoot another day. But what do I know, maybe there wasn't any available for whatever reason.

War isn't fun.