119er said:
I thought I agreed with you, RC. Maybe this causes a higher occurrence of ricochets with tracers?
And I said, no, I didn't think it did, as every bullet goes off to do it's thing when it hits the ground, regardless of the caliber or bullet type.
what reason do you have to be wandering around military impact areas?
Anti-tank squad leader, sergeant, & platoon sergeant longer, AMU gunsmith & shooter, and helped get a 5th. Army sniper school started at Ft. Carson CO in 1969-70.
As AMU guys laying out long range targets, we had free access to every range on post if small arms live fire, or high-explosives wasn't on the training schedule that day.
When it was on the schedule, we were the ones running the training ranges.
Other times we went out and marked unexploded ordinance for EOD to come deal with so we could clear our ranges for longer range use.
Another time, we were camped out for a week in a WWII anti-aircraft impact area at Ft. Riley KS..
I had one of my guys wake me up one night banging on a dud 90mm AA round with his entrenching tool.
Because the pointy end with the corroded fuse on it poked a hole in his air mattress!!!!
Plus, general interest and curiosity the whole while.
We even re-conned a 1940's deserted uranium mine on the south end of Ft. Carson once, against good common sense and general orders.
It did make a good sniper hide nobody had enough guts to come look in though!
And it was way cooler then it was outside in the sun hiding behind a Yuka Sucka plant, with a tarantula crawling up your shirt sleeve because it was cooler inside your shirt!
rc