7.62x39 tracers

[johnk4jmk]

Hey everyone does anyone know where you can get tracers for the AK,dont need alot just for some extra 4th of july fun,I cant find any anywhere.Thanks

[173rdABN]

Ammunitiontogo.com usually has some

[Mike.357]

be careful where you shoot them things.  I shot some out of a M1 carbine once and started a leaf fire on my dirt pile.

[wileecoyote]

[quote name="Mike.357" post="1153554" timestamp="1401467435"]be careful where you shoot them things. I shot some out of a M1 carbine once and started a leaf fire on my dirt pile.[/quote]I used to downplay the risk of tracers causing fires, I figured as long as I had a proper backstop it would be OK. Well we took some 5.56 Nato military tracers out to a public range one day, it had a huge mountain as a backstop, nothing but hundreds of vertical feet of dirt, covered by some huge fallen timber logs, no loose brush. On the day we were shooting it had been raining like a monsoon for almost 24 hours, and was still pouring so bad that it was difficult to see the targets through the scopes. So everything was completely soaked and muddy. Yet those tracers set the mountainside on fire after just a few shots, and it burned red hot flames despite the rain. We walked up to check it and the wet logs were burning near each point of impact. Took us 15 minutes to put it out, and the owners of the range and all the other shooters were shocked, never seeing anything like it, and we would have bet anything against a fire being started under those conditions. So have fun but please be careful, more careful than you might think necessary.

[Troutburger]

My experience with tracers is that they are bad to ricochet.

[Garufa]

My experience with tracers is that they are bad to ricochet.

 

Pretty sure all bullets ricochet to some degree or do unexpected things, you just see what happens when a tracer hits something and it can be a bit disconcerting, especially when you see it blazing a trail somewhere you really don't want it to go.

[Johnny Rotten]

Shoot 4+1 M855/M856 and APIT out of my Barrett all the time, let her rip!!

[E4 No More]

I saw several fires started by tracers during my time in the Marine Corps. :shrug:

[johnk4jmk]

yeah thats all i need since we havent had any rain to mention in about a month.,Dam dont look like ile be shootin any propane tanks or anything this year iether,sit in a lawnchair with a sparkerler in my hand.