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Rich

 

Door gunner is a nasty job.

 

Sure have come a long way from the day of the musket.

 

That was cool. Thanks for posting it.

Are those things loaded with all tracers?

 

As many rounds per minute as they put out, it would appear so... Usually it's every 5...

Miniguns fully get it.

 

That's awesome. Why can't they show that on the news? How does a tracer round work? Is it some kind of chemical reaction that lights up when it gets heated up?

 

Thatd hurt getting hit by one of those

 

Yep, it would leave a mark, for sure!

Rusty

 

Jessie James using a Mini-gun to "Adjust" the Sand Buggy Failure.

http://media.dsc.discovery.com/fansi.../failures.html

 

Fireworks

 

That was the hearse not the sand buggy.

 

happy to be on their team!

 

4 ball (full metal jacketed) round to 1 tracer ratio is pretty much standard issue (So, for every one you see, there are 4 more also going downrange). Tracers use in addition to a lead core, a stronium nitrate additive in the base of the bullet itself. The powder burning provides the heat to ignite the S.N. once the bullet leaves the barrel and is exposed to oxygen. They burn fairly consistantly out to 900m. Also do an excellent job of starting fires. At my last base, we were running a class of M249 gunners thru and a tracer burned about 10 acres of dry grass. -Steve

 

Nope....the hearse was crushed along with a couple of propane tanks in a car crusher.

Try the Second window on the Discovery Channel page.

 

That was a Dillon Aero video, so it's possible that you're seeing 100% tracers there. That's not usually what you see though.

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