wild fires

mrshorty

I am old school and have fired about 50,000 rounds of rifle and pistol bullets in my life. correct me if i am wrong but aren't lead and copper non ferrous meta
ls. how do you get them to spark and start fires. I only ever started one fire and that was on the Hamilton AFB range oin California and we were firing tracer ammo. Please enlighten me on the type ammo used to start so many fires from target shooting.
mr.shorty

toad67

It might also be what they're shooting at. It seems that there are quite a few idiots that go out in the woods to shoot, and their choice of targets, tv's, fridges, tannerite, etc, shows that they have been educated beyond their basic intelligence level, even if they made it past the 6th grade....

TRAP55

ComBloc military surplus, it has a bi-metal jacket, and when it hits something hard, it fragments and burns. In the right conditions, you can see it burn in daylight. At night it looks like a road flare splattering.

mrshorty

Thanks for the help i didn't think of tannerite, I had 10 rounds of british 303 that were brass cased with silver colered bullet with blue tip they would through a spark if it hit something like a rock.
fired nine and kept one for whoknows still in drawer somewhere.
mr.shorty

montanajoe

muzzle flash can also be a hazard