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Posted: 7/24/2003 6:52:47 AM EDT
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Only if they get stuck in there.....[;)]
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Posted: 7/24/2003 7:21:59 AM EDT
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No. They typically light AFTER leaving the barrel.
Unless, like Wilson said, they get stuck. Then you have other more troubling problems. |
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Posted: 7/24/2003 3:24:43 PM EDT
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Quoted: Only if they get stuck in there.....[;)] Mike What do you think the chances of a stuck tracer cooking off the other round in the chamber is? |
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Posted: 7/25/2003 1:06:09 AM EDT
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What do you think the chances of a stuck tracer cooking off the other round in the chamber is? Gun_Addict, 2 chances "slim and none", my comments were meant as a "tongue in cheek" joke. To the best of my knowledge there is no reason to think tracers produce more heat leaving the barrel of an AR-15/M16, than any other type of round, and cook-off was never mentioned. The comment was intended to intimate that the tracer might go hot in the barrel IF it got stuck, which I don't think would happen. I believe tracer HAS to be moving in order to work, as there is no time-delay fuse in them, that I know of. Mike |
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Posted: 7/25/2003 8:05:34 AM EDT
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Quoted: No. They typically light AFTER leaving the barrel. Unless, like Wilson said, they get stuck. Then you have other more troubling problems. Incorrect. The tracer round is burning as it leaves the barrel, and a steady diet of tracer ammo will burn a barrel out much sooner than ball ammo. I did a lot of night firing in the Army and saw this first hand. |
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Posted: 7/25/2003 11:10:22 AM EDT
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I thought they start to trace at 100 yards out after it leave the barrel.
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Posted: 7/25/2003 12:25:19 PM EDT
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The ignitor pellet will have just lit when the bullet leaves the barrel (think about how little time the bullet spends in there). Any extra barrel wear comes from the extra grit and dirt that tracer ammo leaves behind, not because of any extra heat from the ignitor.
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