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Posted: 12/5/2010 8:29:49 PM EDT
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Does anyone know where to purchase them?
Are they legal to own and reload into .308? thanks |
| Here's one place but they are expensive: http://www.bigskysurplus.com/ |
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Incendiary rounds are designed to catch wood or something else combustible on fire when they hit. I'm not sure what's inside them that makes that happen.
Tracers have a bit of phosphorus in the back end that glows when they go through the air. There's another type of .30 cal projectile that's used to "mark" a target. I forgot the "official" name, but the bullet is basically filled with the same stuff that kids sparklers are made of. When they hit a hard object the sparkler material catches fire and sparks. |
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Incendiary rounds are designed to catch wood or something else combustible on fire when they hit. I'm not sure what's inside them that makes that happen. Tracers have a bit of phosphorus in the back end that glows when they go through the air. There's another type of .30 cal projectile that's used to "mark" a target. I forgot the "official" name, but the bullet is basically filled with the same stuff that kids sparklers are made of. When they hit a hard object the sparkler material catches fire and sparks. spotter tracer? those make quite the show upon impact |
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Incendiary rounds are designed to catch wood or something else combustible on fire when they hit. I'm not sure what's inside them that makes that happen. Tracers have a bit of phosphorus in the back end that glows when they go through the air. There's another type of .30 cal projectile that's used to "mark" a target. I forgot the "official" name, but the bullet is basically filled with the same stuff that kids sparklers are made of. When they hit a hard object the sparkler material catches fire and sparks. Not to say that incendiary rounds and tracer rounds are the same, but my understanding is that tracers also have the same capability of setting things on fire. |
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Incendiary rounds are designed to catch wood or something else combustible on fire when they hit. I'm not sure what's inside them that makes that happen. Tracers have a bit of phosphorus in the back end that glows when they go through the air. There's another type of .30 cal projectile that's used to "mark" a target. I forgot the "official" name, but the bullet is basically filled with the same stuff that kids sparklers are made of. When they hit a hard object the sparkler material catches fire and sparks. Yeah... I have never heard of .30 cal spotter tracer. There is however a special spotter tracer in .50 cal, M48 http://cartridgecollectors.org/cmo/cmo08dec.htm (link posted in place of photos/article, due to arfcom CoC.) |
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