Thread: Are these .223 tracers?

Originally Posted by XR500

During the summer period there is usually a tracer ban in all military training areas, cause they start LOTS of fires. Just look to the East when you drive the Desert road!

The ammo technicians have to run all the belts of ammo through a delinker, then relink with no tracer.

This results in a shit ton of tracer being accumulated.

It is then relinked into 100% tracer belts, and gets fired off in winter when there's no fire risk. Its not ideal as it doesn't teach you where to aim (4 ball 1 T belts, the ball rounds are landing about 2m lower than the tracer does @1000m (7.62).

But the stuff is great fun at night, and gets hauled out at final field exercises for its wow! factor

Haha we got made to do that by hand, the NCO's got impatient and told us to go ahead and start firing anyway. Started a good scrub fire. The NCO who went to try and put it out (despite being told not to) almost won a Darwin award when a UX 40mm exploded about 20m away, fortunately above him on the bank.

If you cant understand that anything flammable (wood, grass or rubber) + tracer can equal fire you probably shouldn't own matches or a lighter either. They are just a fast travelling firework, nothing more. Yes I know some of you want to ban fireworks also.