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tracer
Tracer ammunition (tracers) are bullets or cannon-caliber projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base. When fired, the pyrotechnic composition is ignited by the burning powder and burns very brightly, making the projectile trajectory visible to the naked eye during daylight, and very bright during nighttime firing. This allows the shooter to visually trace the flight path of the projectile and thus make necessary ballistic corrections, without having to confirm projectile impacts and without even using the sights of the weapon. Tracer fire can also be used as a marking tool to signal other shooters to concentrate their fire on a particular target during battle.
When used, tracers are usually loaded as every fifth round in machine gun belts, referred to as four-to-one tracer. Platoon and squad leaders will load some tracer rounds in their magazine or even use solely tracers to mark targets for their soldiers to fire on. Tracers are also sometimes placed two or three rounds from the bottom of magazines to alert shooters that their weapons are almost empty. During World War II, aircraft with fixed machine guns or cannons mounted would sometimes have a series of tracer rounds added near the end of the ammunition belts, to alert the pilot that he was almost out of ammunition. However, this practice similarly alerted astute enemies that their foes were nearly out of ammunition. More often, however, the entire magazine was loaded four-to-one, on both fixed offensive and flexible defensive guns, to help mitigate the difficulties of aerial gunnery. Tracers were very common on most WWII aircraft, with the exception of night fighters, which needed to be able to attack and shoot down the enemy before they realized they were under attack, and without betraying their own location to the enemy defensive gunners. The United States relied heavily on tracer ammunition for the defensive Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns on its heavy bombers such as the B-24 Liberator, but they found that during deflection shooting, gunners who tried to aim using the tracers rather than the sights ended up not "leading" the enemy aircraft enough and missing, because of an optical illusion that made it appear that the tracers were striking the aircraft, when in reality they were passing significantly behind it. This proved true of fixed forward firing guns as well. In some cases, gunners were ordered not to use tracer ammunition at all, but in the end, with greater emphasis during training on using the sights and not trusting the tracers, the problem was solved to a large degree.
Tracer rounds can also have a mild incendiary effect, and can ignite flammable substances on contact, provided the tracer compound has started burning and is still burning on impact.
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Some old 30-06 ammo hiding out in the safes
1box black tip AP rounds (case stamp) EW-43
1box red tip Tracer rounds (case stamp) LC-42
1 box winchester ball (case stamp) wra-45
1box Gallery practice cartridge model (case stamp) 1919 RAH-18
1 box of 1961 lake city match (head stamp) LC-6...
Cash Sale in person, no shipments due to composition, can meet in a TBD mutual location on Eastside\Northend of Seattle. Will throw in 40 rounds of 145gr Steel case rounds.
As listed below, might separate if no one wants that much but will leave it up for now. Available for pickup at office near Washington Square/Beaverton DURING BUSINESS HOURS which for us is @7:30am- 4:00 pm Tuesday-Thursday. Mon and Fri might be able to be arranged if that's all you can do...
I have 50 rounds of 308 tracer and 18 rounds of 7mm Mauser ammo. The 7mm is 175 grain soft point Winchester. The 308 is US military. As required by idiotic Federal rules is has been broken down and then reloaded with new primers by commercial reloaders so when the projectile is tumbled it...
I have 50 rounds of 308 tracer and 20 rounds of 7mm Mauser ammo. The 7mm is 175 grain soft point Winchester. The 308 is US military. As required by idiotic Federal rules is has been broken down and then reloaded with new primers by commercial reloaders so when the projectile is tumbled it...
I have more than enough of these loaded so selling remainder of my M856 62g tracer projectiles. I have 3 one sold 2 boxes remaining of 150+ to sell.
These are not pulls. Some have orange tip some not.
$40 per box of 150+ bullets (8 extra in each box)
I am willing to ship all three in one...
I have a case of 500 rds of 7.62x51 or 308 tracer ammo. It is M80 US military 147 grain FMJ tracer. This is from a commercial reloading company in AR called Federal Armament. They buy military surplus ammo, and by Federal law have to pull the bullets and then reload them because the Feds dont...
As the title says,
Will buy or trade for other bullets or buy if the price isn’t ridiculously sky high as some are asking. If they are pulled bullets, that’s perfectly okay. Thanks in advance
Max
Fresh from dry storage, linked ball .30-06(M2-1) with every 5th round a tracer(M23). These come in their origional ammo can. The ammo is clean, in amazing shape, and was kept in its sealed ammo can in dry stoarge. I was tempeted to delink them and use them up but my heart says they need to go...
Lake City 5.56x45mm XM856 Tracer ammunition with a FMJ 64 Grain Bullet, Brass Case, Boat Tail with Lead Core and Tracer Composition. 250 round bag. No trades and not shipping. Meet near Bonney Lake/Sumner/Puyallup area.
Cartridge: 5.56x45mm
Brand Style: Lake City
Bullet Weight: 64 Grain...
40 rounds of BVAC 30-06 140gr tracer rounds purchased from Cheaper Than Dirt and 20 30-06 tracer rounds of unknown bullet weight and manufacturer purchased from Ammunition to Go. Priced at $25 cash for all 60 rounds. Not interested in any trades and will not ship. Face to face transaction in...
Up for sale are 40 rounds of BVAC 30-06 140gr tracer rounds purchased from Cheaper Than Dirt and 20 30-06 tracer rounds of unknown bullet weight and manufacturer purchased from Ammunition to Go. Priced at $40 cash for all 60 rounds. Not interested in any trades and will not ship. Face to face...