2,300 houses evacuated, 4,000 acres burned by target shooter ?

AP ^

[Java4Jay]

Bureau of Land Management officials say they believe the blaze was caused when a bullet hit a rock and sparked the fire. This is the 20th target-shooting related fire this year in Utah, they said.

[GingisK]

bullet hit a rock and sparked the fire

It seems the BLM stooges bought into the Hollywood notion that bullets spark. I hadn't thought through the gun control angle when this started in earnest with the First Blood series.

[School of Rational Thought]

Does not anyone read the article?

[Ronon]

All’s I can tell you is that there are steel jacketed rounds sold routinely at gun shows around here. NOT cases. Pretty sure this is the stuff:
http://www.deadzeroammo.com/762-x-39-Golden-Tiger-124gr-FMJ-BT-Steel-cased-20rd-box-4605837000764.htm

Note the “bimetal” jacket. Looks like copper but really is just a light plating of it. Scrap the copper off and it is steel - very soft. I have some WW1 7mm FMJ that is steel also. A good magnet will hold the bullet up off a table.

[Forty-Niner]

I stand partially corrected...still these are not stell jacketed but rather steel core with a copper jacket.....a steel jacket, even a “soft stell one would erode a barrel pretty quickly unless it was a smothbore.

The linked rounds appear to have enough copper on them to prevent erosion of the barrel’s rifling....