Emergency Doctors Determine that Trump was Struck by a Rifle Bullet

[Zeon Mason]

That possible obstacle in the video is BELOW the base  of the podium itself.

So my position is still that Crooks 1st and 2nd shots were presumably aimed to hit Trump at the very least in  the upper center of his body which is well above the base of the podium and approx half his body above the top of the podium = a target area approx 3 ft high x 1ft 6” wide.

Since I doubt seriously any average person familiar with the AR 15 and having some experience shooting a rifle such as Crooks had, would likely miss far off a 3ft x 1ft 6 in target (above the top of the podium) at range of 130 yds , then I remain skeptical of the fragment theory.

The only possibility imo could be some kind of ricochet of the bullet #1 or # 2 striking the very top edge of the podium then flying upwards at an some angle to the right  side of Trumps head when his head was NOT turned so far towards to his right  ( towards Crooks).

All the videos seem to indicate Trump being hit as his head is turned all the way to his right so that would preclude a ricochet off the podium top edge because the bullet or fragment of bullet would have to traverse thru some part of Trumps mid upper body before reaching the right  side of his head.

IDK if the shot which is captured in the photo wizzing past Trumps head was fragment or whole bullet, but the trajectory line  ( reflected sunlight illumination of the projectile) looks likes it’s too  horizontal to be plausibly an upward angle ricochet from the top edge of the podium.

[Andrew Mason]

If the shutter speed was 1/400 th or 1/500 th of a second, then it is consistent with a bullet speed of 2700 feet per second. But if the shutter speed was 1/100 th of a second, then it is consistent with a much slower speed, which is consistent with a fragment. Which is also consistent with causing a minor wound. And not blasting the top of the ear off. And likely continuing on to crack the skull, unless the head just happened to be turned perfectly.

Whether it is a rifle bullet or a fragment, it takes a good deal of luck to capture the image of a projectile path. But it takes several times more luck to capture the image of a rifle bullet than it does of a fragment. So I still think it is more likely an image of a fragment than of a rifle bullet.

In any case, we do not have enough information to conclude it was an image of a rifle bullet because we do not know the all important shutter speed.

If the shutter speed was 1/100th of a second, then the flash limit would not be 1/400th of a second (full frame: 35.9x24 mm) or 1/500th of a second (APS-C 25.1x16.7 mm).  The flash sync limit is the shortest exposure time in which the sensor is fully exposed, that is with the first curtain fully open and the second has not started to cover the sensor.