I have a friend who would lite campfires with Magtech tracers. They were the ones that burn white. I think the gas he poured on the wood ,three to five gallons, helped a little. :lol: Just asked a retired major I work with and he said tracers caused range fires in dry weather.
When I was in the Army (tanks) we used to set fires with our tracers all the time in very humid conditions( Louisianna). We extinquished them by stopping our tanks over the fires and neutral steering(pivot steering to non tread heads). It put out brush fires just fine! Unfortunantaly, I dont have a 60 ton fire extinguisher no more. Be careful. BTW, I think shooting tracers on Federal lands is illegal. Correct me if wrong on that.
Yup, tracers can set dry grass on fire. You have never seen a white boy run 200 yards so fast to put out a fire as I did a few years back. I probly could have qualified for the olympics that day. :shock: I haven't fired any tracers since then. I don't need that kind of exitement in my life.
When I wuz at BYU, I learned that Utah law forbids shooting tracers just about anywhere except on a military reservation. One October, we introduced the club members to Highpower at Camp Williams' K-D range (back when they HAD one west of Point of the Mountain).
One of us there had tracers.
The pit service suddenly stopped-all targets in the pits.
Three of us RAN up the hill to put out the fire. It was kinda fun to watch the boyz do the flambe-dance from my spot on the 200-yard line. No more tracers that day!
All military ranges have what is called fire breaks in their impact areas. The impact areas regularly caught fire when trainees were shooting M60's at Ft. Dix., when I went through training.
The fire breaks are to help prevent spreading of any fires that occur.
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