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Posted: 2/2/2016 8:21:25 AM EDT
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I am about to start loading up some pulled 55gr tracers. What powder, if any, provides the best chance of light-up with tracers?
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| I bought enough of those t tips to fill a couple 30 cal ammo cans, but have only loaded ~200. IIRC we used 844, a stick powder, and had most of them light. I only got them cause they were very cheap, but the only time I can run them is winter and early spring. Any other time a fire is guaranteed. |
| The main issue is the condition of the tracer bullet compounds. If the tracing compound is good they will light with about any 55 gr. AR powder. I've used WC844 and H335 with red and orange tipped tracers with good results. If the tracer compound has deteriorated nothing is going to light them. |
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I bought enough of those t tips to fill a couple 30 cal ammo cans, but have only loaded ~200. IIRC we used 844, a stick powder, and had most of them light. I only got them cause they were very cheap, but the only time I can run them is winter and early spring. Any other time a fire is guaranteed. WC 844 is a ball powder.. Biggest issue with 55gr is bullet speed.. they travel so fast your eye has hard time spotting any trace before they hit berm.. waste of ammo to use them at anything typically under 200yd.. I shot a load of them at maybe 100yd from a 7.5" barrel, moving at 2100-2200 FPS, you could easily catch them trying to light at about 75yd before disappear into dirt of 100yd berm.. USGI tracer is very good for starting fire.. shot some at inlaws into fallen tree debris that power line people cut down,, couple into log,, sit there and see blue-white smoldering smoke like somebody trying to get camp fire going from spot where bullet impact log.. dry grass / leafs.. dont do it |
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Need to know if the tracer compound is closed with a metal or paper cup... The paper cup closures are mostly likely dead and won't light. I shot a few just the other day and got a nice "puff" of smoke about 50yds out as the igniting compound lit but didn't get a trace at all. Could see it over 200yds and it was lo-light so it should have been visible if lit. |
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