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Posted: 11/28/2004 11:20:23 PM EDT
| Picked up ten rounds of blue tipped 5.56 ammo labeled "incendary" at a fun show today. it was the ammo dealer that is always there and a has a box of specialty ammo (incendiary, tracers, etc.). well after the show, i loaded a round into my AR and fired at a tree stump. nothing. i tried another and still nothing more than a regular round. am i missing something about incendiary ammo? should it do something more than a regular round? please forgive my ignorance. |
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[El Roto nods to P.T. Barnum as he walks in...] Even if that round was incendiary - which it most likely was not - what makes you think it would have made a tree stump catch fire? Think of how much energy it normally takes you to light an ordinary piece of wood in the fireplace (and I'm not talking about a DuraFlame log here). Do you think a 5.56 mm bullet can store enough chemicals that burn with enough energy at a long enough duration to get the log in question burning nicely? No, of course not. Now, you took that same itty bitty round and fired it at a stump, which by definition has to be larger than any limb from that tree. Even if that stump was dryer than a popcorn fart in the Sahara, 'twernt nothin' gonna happen. Find a pig who's living apart from his two brothers and has built a single room dwelling out of dry thatch and pump a few rounds into that if you must entertain your ballistic pyromanical tendencies, but beware!, there's usually a Wolf who's working his own angle in that same neighborhood. 
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| You might try shooting a couple at night against a hard target. A .50 cal incendiary round makes about a 6 inch ball of flame when it hits. That is with 90 grains of explosive (depends on the actual round). A tiny little 5.56 bullet makes a very poor incendiary round. |
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