GlowAmmo
Handgun tracer ammo? I guess it could be useful for learning a bullet’s flight path.
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November 21st, 2011 at 10:55 am
Just saw some tracers in .22 at Cabelas on National Buy Ammo Day. Green or red. About $100 for a box of 250 or so.
November 21st, 2011 at 11:03 am
Don’t do it! It’ll give away your position!!
November 21st, 2011 at 11:05 am
Also very useful for demonstrating that ricochets occur off the berm at an outdoor shooting range. Seeing the tracer shoot straight up or right or left, rather than burying itself in the dirt, was … interesting.
November 21st, 2011 at 11:17 am
They’re fun. period.
November 21st, 2011 at 11:32 am
SBR Ammunition makes short and long range pistol tracers. While the shooters often can’t see them, the instructor can and they really help in diagnosing aiming problems.
November 21st, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Interesting. I like the idea.
FYI, the link needs an autoplay warning for the video.
November 21st, 2011 at 1:06 pm
NNnnnnoooooo! You’ll give away your position!
November 21st, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Crud…posted too soon…just saw LCScotty’s post. Beat me too it.
November 21st, 2011 at 6:17 pm
So, the “tracer” is a sticker applied to the rear of the bullet while loading the round. I imagine it is heat-activated, but it doesn’t say to in the handloading ad.
Now, every range manager I know will say “no deal” to ANY tracer, so the first thing we have to do is find another name.
Perhaps the NRA might stop slapping themselves on the back long enough to evaluate this, and make a note to all their RSOs and ROs that it’s OK.
November 21st, 2011 at 10:13 pm
“Also very useful for demonstrating that ricochets occur off the berm at an outdoor shooting range.”
Which is one reason so many ranges ban tracer ammo, but they won’t say it. Fire danger is another very good reason.
I bought a bunch of tracers in 7.62 x 39, .22LR and .45 ACP and took a friend tracer shooting one time, along with the new .45 pistol we got him. It is fun, though I’ve seen tracers being used in pistol training during W.W. II.
This “cold tracer” is a good idea.
November 21st, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Way back, about 20 years or so I would guess, I found some tracer rounds for my my service weapon. I took the rounds to a night shoot/ qualifying range for our department and the county sheriffs office.
The range master was a friend of mine, so I got his permission to use the rounds. We loaded an unsuspecting deputy’s magazine to see what would happen. I learned 3 important things.
1. Rounds that hit steel will go in every direction.
2. Tracers look really freaking cool heading down-range.
3. A sheriff, 2 lieutenants and several sergeants, all Vietnam vets, will hit the dirt and then become very enraged when they see tracer fire on the range.
Roger