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To: Java4Jay

Magnesium tipped bullets?

Unless the “target shooter” was using tracers, no way a stray bullet sparked a fire.


19 posted on 06/22/2012 9:05:41 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo

i agree about tracers. it was so hot in germany in ‘77 (how hot was it, you ask?) we started pulling tracers out of machine gun belts, mortars could hva e max of 3 flares in the air and they had to burn out 100m above the ground and they were only fired to support tank platoon night battle runs. finally, after we went home, they just stopped because the tracers in the 105mm tank shells were causing fires.

only wat target shooting would cause a fire is overloading black powder weapons and anybody who shoots black powder is already smart enough to know better.


28 posted on 06/22/2012 9:47:30 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
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To: Yo-Yo

The feds have been hot to trot for banning milsurp ammo with carbide or hardened steel core.


35 posted on 06/22/2012 10:12:10 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (A man with his feet hacked off tends not to scurry far. - Norse proverb)
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