I’ve seen wildfires on Army ranges, and those were in the Midwest. ...went for the fire truck myself once. It can happen pretty easily. I’ll wait until the fire bans are gone before firing on my own range again. BTW, recreational firing is illegal now in my County (in CO), until the fire ban is lifted.
Yep. I solved the problem by living somewhere that doesn’t have these drought issues.
My friend and I joke around that California is Indian for “Don’t live here”. Deserts also apply.
We started several fires at Army ranges, but all involved tracer rounds. Most summer range trips required us to pull all tracers out of the loads and fire them into dirt berms at the end of the day. Every now and then one tracer would jump the berm and start a fire.
Military rounds are most frequently either steel jacketed, or steel cored. this type of round is required in order to defeat body armor, ammo laden vests, etc.
Most military ranges incorporate steel targets. If a bullet that has any steel in its makeup strikes a metal target of sufficient thickness as to prevent penetration by the round, the resulting ricochet will almost assuredly produce a spark.