Wildfire started by target shooters

[cfortune]

what about shooting tracers at steel?

Shower thought: If we would take up shooting w/ fire extinguishers instead of guns, the title of this thread would read "shooting target started by wildfire".

I found this to be way funnier than I should have...

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[Bailey Guns]

I've actually started a fire by shooting into an old tree stump.

Apparently, someone before me had used the stump as a target before I did (it was a common shooting area). After I fired a round, all 4 of us saw a bright, glowing piece of debris fly from the stump and land in the grass about 50 feet away. Started a small fire that we quickly put out with shovels and bottled water. Don't know what it was that my bullet hit. I don't know if a tracer can be ignited like that or not. Or maybe it was just the steel core of an old bullet.

[wctriumph]

It can happen, I have seen bullet ricochet off a rock and start a fire.

A friend and I were once stopped from riding our dirt bikes in a legal riding area because of high fire danger even though we had USFS approved spark arresters properly installed. The ranger said the it was possible that a rock could get kicked up and bounce off our bikes causing a spark that could start a fire. He did not know that it had ever happened before but thought the possibility of it happening was enough to stop us from legal riding on public lands.

[Hummer]

http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-c...oulder-countys


No charges filed against target shooters in Boulder County's Rabbit Mountain Fire


Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett has decided not to file criminal charges against three target shooters at Round Mountain Ranch, where a bullet fragment ignited a grass fire that spread more than 150 acres Feb. 20.

A week ago, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office announced that the Rabbit Mountain Fire near Hygiene originated at 6303 Ute Highway and officials forwarded the case to prosecutors for review.

Garnett said they determined that there was no level of culpability — not even negligence — over shooting steel plates in the northwest corner of the property when a fragment from one of the rounds ignited nearby grasses, which were extremely dry on a windy day.

"We had these guys, they were shooting on private land in an appropriate location with an appropriate backstop," Garnett said. "Nothing about what they were doing was negligent and one of the bullets ignited a grass fire, which they immediately tried to put out and also called the fire authorities."

DA spokeswoman Catherine Olguin said the three men who were shooting do not own the property, but had permission from the property owner. She said they will not be releasing the names.

Multiple calls to the ranch went to a full voicemail and a records request for the initial fire report was unavailable Wednesday.

Boulder County sheriff's Cmdr. Mike Wagner previously said in response to questions about whether the shooting was allowed that "there are no legal restrictions in place that explicitly prohibit shooting on the property." He added that "the question comes down to whether there is criminal responsibility for the fire or not in review of the criminal statutes."

[00tec]

http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-c...oulder-countys


No charges filed against target shooters in Boulder County's Rabbit Mountain Fire


Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett has decided not to file criminal charges against three target shooters at Round Mountain Ranch, where a bullet fragment ignited a grass fire that spread more than 150 acres Feb. 20.

A week ago, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office announced that the Rabbit Mountain Fire near Hygiene originated at 6303 Ute Highway and officials forwarded the case to prosecutors for review.

Garnett said they determined that there was no level of culpability — not even negligence — over shooting steel plates in the northwest corner of the property when a fragment from one of the rounds ignited nearby grasses, which were extremely dry on a windy day.

"We had these guys, they were shooting on private land in an appropriate location with an appropriate backstop," Garnett said. "Nothing about what they were doing was negligent and one of the bullets ignited a grass fire, which they immediately tried to put out and also called the fire authorities."

DA spokeswoman Catherine Olguin said the three men who were shooting do not own the property, but had permission from the property owner. She said they will not be releasing the names.

Multiple calls to the ranch went to a full voicemail and a records request for the initial fire report was unavailable Wednesday.

Boulder County sheriff's Cmdr. Mike Wagner previously said in response to questions about whether the shooting was allowed that "there are no legal restrictions in place that explicitly prohibit shooting on the property." He added that "the question comes down to whether there is criminal responsibility for the fire or not in review of the criminal statutes."

I think that's the right call.