[ar10]

I was working the range yesterday, a typical ho-hum Saturday, and watching which shooters were had the best brass and leaving lay. I walked by a man and his son shooting a .308 on the 70yd range doing a quick check on safety. I glanced at their target at exactly the moment the son pulled the trigger and nearly (not appropriate language), my shorts as I watched the target go up in smoke. I shut down the range immediately and went to the shooter and had him drop his magazine so I could check the ammo. it looked like perfectly mil surp ball ammo. But I took the ammo out from under awning into the sun for a better look and there it was. the tips of all the ammo were discolored just enough to show someone had buffed and polished the tips. I re-opened the range and had him fire a single round into the bank behind the target and sure enough there was the pretty red burn of a tracer just igniting as it hit the backstop.
Apparently the dad and his son bought the ammo from the local gun show a couple of months ago and got sold a bill of goods.
I wish I would have remembered to look at the head stamp. I checked the primer pocket, Berdan, so I just tossed them.

[SASS#23149]

Well,at least it wasn't a ho-hum day ALL day. :)

[parisite]

Why did you toss them, instead of giving them back and asking them not to shoot the tracers there?

[scrat]

i think he meant the emptys otherwise how you going to look inside to see if its berdan. i would have tossed them too

[ar10]

Scrat's right.
I think they had about 200 rounds of the stuff and took it with them. Shooting tracer rounds is also illegal at most every range in OH.