incendiary bullets

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as i mentioned in my reloading bench thread, i happened upon an incendiary bullet mixed into a box of lake city pulled USGI bullets. naturally i loaded it up into a cartridge. what else was i supposed to do with it?(no, don't answer that) so my question is, will i see any difference in daylight, of should i save it for after dark?
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Load a handful of’em into a 12ga shotshell and share videos!!!
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Don't tracer rounds put more wear and tear on a rifle barrel?
I recall that they're "legal" to buy, but not shoot them in most areas and caution is needed as the rounds can start fires.
What's the story with tracer rounds?
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Tracer rounds are so you can "walk" fire onto a target, particularly at night. They are also even more terrifying, somehow, than just having regular "invisible" bullets coming at you. We would load them every third or fifth round in M16's and M249's for night fire ops.
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Marlene wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:45 pm Incendiary isn’t the same as tracer is it?
Looked it up there is a difference. Tracers have a coating that allows their trajectory to be traced. Incendiary bullets have a compound that ignites on contact with an object to start a fire. The incendiary ammo first used in WWI by the British to shoot down the Zeppelins by igniting the hydrogen gas. In WWII incendiaryBullets used to ignite gas tanks on the fighters. The British had .303 caliber incendiary while the USAAF used the .50 caliber. They both mixed the incendiary , tracer and amour piercing rounds on the same belt feeding the machine guns.
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Hi...
Tracer ammunition, the orange tip stuff, has a small pryo charge, usually a magnesium or aluminum salt, though other metals get used too...in the base of the bullet, up its butt as it were.

It won't harm the barrel. Because it's in the base and not a coating. It will start fires though, because it'll continue to burn until exhausted.

Saw a video daughter's former beloved made when he was teaching newly minted Marines how to handle machine guns effectively. Every 4th was a tracer round and it was rather sobering to realize that there were three rounds in between.

It was shot in daylight. Looked like a solid line of light coming out of the barrel. He tells me that those directly on the other end of the equation (the receiving end) wouldn't see a thing.
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rolandson wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2020 2:03 am Hi...
Tracer ammunition, the orange tip stuff, has a small pryo charge, usually a magnesium or aluminum salt, though other metals get used too...in the base of the bullet, up its butt as it were.

It won't harm the barrel. Because it's in the base and not a coating. It will start fires though, because it'll continue to burn until exhausted.

Saw a video daughter's former beloved made when he was teaching newly minted Marines how to handle machine guns effectively. Every 4th was a tracer round and it was rather sobering to realize that there were three rounds in between.

It was shot in daylight. Looked like a solid line of light coming out of the barrel. He tells me that those directly on the other end of the equation (the receiving end) wouldn't see a thing.
thanks for this, i knew someone had to have some more direct experience with it. the cylindrical part of the base of the bullet was maybe a quarter of an inch longer than regular bullets, and there was something resembling a shotgun primer inside. no, not gonna cut one open.
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