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by rolandson
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.
Subliterate Buffooery of the right...
Literate Ignorance of the left...
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