ong45 Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 At this past weekends local match a fellow shooting a .45 started the cheat grass burning on one of our berms, took about 6 of us stomping and a couple of buckets of water to put it out. I'm always skeptical of reports blaming shooters whenever a wild fire starts around here, and i have never heard a first person account of this ever happening. Million to one shot but it can happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eager Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 So....could you give us some details on what caused the fire, how it happned, progressed etc. Was he using steel containing bullets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 how... details Please... here i thought someone was cold and needed to keep warm.. we start barrel fires all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 It happened here locally with rifle fire glancing off a rock. Kimel has the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Hayden Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 We started one with tracers from a 50 once.. could have been a coincidence, but then we put it out with a 106MM.. probably seen too many 'Red Adair' movies.. Of course the 106 started a fire with the back blast.. it burned itself out.. lol Man those things were fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmd Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Indoors I have seen fires start. A shooting buddie of mine has casued two minor flareups. He's a tall guy and shoots an SVI w/Tribrid barrel. On two occasions I have witnessed the target rail carriers above him ignite while he was shooting. I am guessing this was do to unburnt powder on the rails. Good thing there is always a fire extinguisher handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ong45 Posted October 6, 2006 Author Share Posted October 6, 2006 I examined the spot where the fire seemed to start . Some small rocks but nothing unusual. The shooter was using jacketed bullets. There was an awful lot of dry cheat grass on the berm though. Stuff's like gasoline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sargenv Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 At a range Berkim and I shoot at, they've had 2 fires. Apparently one range used to have a shack up on the hill that contained spray paint for the steel located on that hill. It was speculated that back before they banned steel core ammo, someone glanced a shot off of a piece of steel and into that paint shack, something sparked and whoosh, big grass fire. I think another case was when someone shot steel core on the 100 yard line, glanced off a rock, sparked, and whoosh, there goes the second fire.. They've since banned steel core ammo at that range and re-designed the multi-purpose range so that they no longer have a paint shack and is more flat than before. That range is out in the hotter part of the Bay area. Vince Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Steel core gets blamed a lot for sparking, but just plain old lead bullets also can convert a whole lot of kinetic energy into heat when they hit something and stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grump Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Why do so many of us say "steel core" when they mean "steel jacket"? Like fingernails on the chalkboard. BTW, a lot of USGI M2 Ball and M80 Ball is steel jacket. Check it with a magnet like I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Grump, Because they don't know the difference. Interesting. very interesting... not i'll be TRYING to start fires with my gun just to see if i can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Two targets allowed bullets into the impact zone of the fire. One was your standard 5' high at the shoulders, bullets into the side berm. The other was a lay-down target, bullets into the ground at an angle, from there into the side berm (or wherever!). There were some rocks in the ground in the initial impact zone of the lay-down target. A brass rake (i.e. lawn/leaf rake) did most of the fire suppression and a 5 gal. brass bucket filled with water put out the smoldering hot spots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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