50 caliber bullet types

[Metalhed]

Greetings Is there an easy way to distinguish 50 caliber bullets?
We are thinking about allowing 50s at our range but only if they shoot the M2 ball or commercial.

The commercial should be easy to figure out. The military not so much. We are concerned that folks will wipe the paint off the tip and try to shoot that. I would hate to see someone shooting tracer or incendiary. The range I belong to is in the forest and trees are everywhere.

Someome said that the cannelures can be used to figure out what bullet is what. Any truth to that??
Thanks

[HBARleatherneck]

[Hoser]

No good/easy way to tell if someone took acetone to the paint.

[HBARleatherneck]

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[spqrzilla]

I think it becomes pretty obvious for some of those types, once the trigger is pulled.

[Metalhed]

HBAR- yes
Spqrzilla- That is the problem, if they let one go down range we could have problems.
I would hate to be associated with anything that burned the forest down

[HBARleatherneck]

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[spqrzilla]

Metalhed, I'd think that when the first incindiary round impacts, that your RO would have the shooter pulled off the line and banned quickly enough. Right after the full cease-fire and general everyone-run-down-and-stomp-out-the-fire drill.

If they are also scratching off the paint from the rounds, ban 'em too.

Seems to me not to be rocket science, you can't stop everything before it happens. You can't really inspect every pocket or box for every round in advance. Tell the shooters that its a "strict liability offense". Ie., no excuses. Paint or no paint, an incindiary goes downrange, they are banned permanently. Make it their problem.

[RYAN50BMG]

Let me toss this in as a .50 shooter. Tracer(in it's various forms) is your biggest fire concern. Strait incindiary (blue tip, API, MK 211) is for starting petroleum type products on fire. They do not burn long enough to start wood on fire. I have WELL over 12k into my .50, not including ammo. I would not waste the time to scrap off paint just to be kicked off the range. Also, I would think that someone that has dropped the $$$ on a .50 would not be an idiot that you would have to watch...however..

[spqrzilla]

Ah, but Ryan, the world is full of plenty of people who dropped $10K for a .50 BMG when they should have bought brains.

That's the joy of RO'ing ... having each and every idiot self-demo their IQ fails in front of you.