Please dont shoot tracers at the Pawnee. Or anywhere right now without significant safeguards.

[EvilRhino]

About 2 months ago, folks were doing a "gender reveal" using tannerite and colored chalk. If tannerite itself doesn't start fires, apparently adding chalk does.

[GilpinGuy]

Unfortunately, humanity has a subset of people who possess many levels of stupid.

And yes, it's been the driest winter I have seen in my 19 years up here at 9000 feet. We have maybe 50% of the ground under snow that's a few inches deep in mid March. And I see no significant precip on the radar forcast out till the 20th. Unknown after that. Not good for the "snowiest month of the year".

Be careful.

[TheGrey]

My god. It stuns me, the level of stupidity that ome people exhibit.

Apparently, this is the subset that requires "Caution: Flammable" warnings on matchbooks.

[ben4372]

Most interesting one of these I saw was a gun shop selling “inert tracers”. They said they were so old the tracers were “guaranteed” not to work. That fire was fun to put out.

I have a .50 cal can of these tips. They have about a 75% light rate if used with the right powder. I've never heard of any ammo aging out completely. This does remind us that people in any industry cause most the trouble.

[Skip]

Passed on cans of surplus M856 during the ObamaPanic for this exact reason (cheaper than M193/855 at the time). Can't really shoot it anywhere in CO without this risk, year round. Even a nice sandy backstop makes me nervous.

I do have a box (20 rounds) of the stuff that I'll never shoot.

[BigBear]

Hmmm.... I wish they'd change the name from Tannerite to something else. It's a generic term now. (Sorry HBAR, I'll shut up about it... I seem to have struck a nerve. My sincerest apologies.)

Anyways, am I the only one who digs a sand pit and/or cuts/clears a small area if shooting in dry/grassy areas?

Another question, what's the deal with everyone shooting tracers? I see the need in combat, etc... but for everyday plinking, what am I missing besides "'Murica and stuff"?

How many of us have a fire extinguisher/gallons of water in the car?

[Grant H.]

Hmmm.... I wish they'd change the name from Tannerite to something else. It's a generic term now. (Sorry HBAR, I'll shut up about it... I seem to have struck a nerve. My sincerest apologies.)

Anyways, am I the only one who digs a sand pit and/or cuts/clears a small area if shooting in dry/grassy areas?

Another question, what's the deal with everyone shooting tracers? I see the need in combat, etc... but for everyday plinking, what am I missing besides "'Murica and stuff"?

How many of us have a fire extinguisher/gallons of water in the car?

I used to shoot a lot of tracers, because I could buy pulled down bullets for significantly less than just lead/copper, and reload them.

While I was doing that, we managed to start 2 fires at the range that we used, but that was it. Both were extinguished at less than 100sqft, and then repeatedly checked for any "hot spots" before we left.

I always have a 20lb extinguisher with me in the truck (partly because of work requirements, but also it's just a good practice), and have used it several times and had to refill it.

[BushMasterBoy]

I'll explain it. Dehydrated plants are mainly cellulose. If the cellulose becomes a fine powder, it becomes an explosive. Tumbleweed and other plants become a powdered cellulose. Tannerite sets off a crude explosive and causes a fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_explosion