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Tracer Rounds

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  • 01-03-2017 8:33am
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    Czhornet
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭


    Is it possible to get .22lr tracer rounds in Ireland?


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    cookimonster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭cookimonster


    Had them back in the '80s, haven't seen them since.
    They were HV solids with red tips, not very practical, very short burn rate even over distance. We never tried them for accuracy, they were just bought for the novelty. Absolutely nothing like mil spec so don't get your hopes up.


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    Sparks
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    IIRC, they're classified as incendiary rounds here these days and you aren't supposed to be selling them. But it's been a very long time since anyone seriously asked, so I may be wrong about that...


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    juice1304
    Registered Users Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭juice1304


    They are restricted, like said above they are classed as incendiary rounds so you can only legally buy and possess them with a restricted licence.
    Also tracers are useless they are only "ok" for directing machine gun fire, as they travel and the phosphorus burns up the weight changes and it makes for a terrible accuracy.


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    Sparks
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    Are they restricted? I thought they fell under the "prohibited" category?


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    123shooter
    Registered Users Posts: 964 ✭✭✭123shooter


    If you are in Ireland then you may only have a rifle? so they are completely useless.

    This ex-military man explains why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1OY8gaMMmQ


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    Sparks
    Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    123shooter wrote: »
    If you are in Ireland then you may only have a rifle?
    You mean as in "you can't have an automatic firearm" or as in "you can't licence a shotgun or a pistol"?


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    123shooter
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    I think so Sparks but I have no idea what he has or wants the tracer for.

    In the vid I think Paul explains that they do not work consistantly out of a short barreled gun any way so a rifle I assume.


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    cookimonster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭cookimonster


    Tracers could and where used in battlefield rifles to indicate target and direct section fire etc. The recoiless anti tank gun used a barreled action shooting 7.62 tracer rounds for ranging and target acquisition. Bounce the tracer off the armour and then let fly with 106mm HEAT round.


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    Sparks
    Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    7.62mm, sure, you can licence that.
    106mm HEAT is going to be a bit trickier though.


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    yubabill1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭yubabill1


    Bought a box of 22LR like Cookimonster's back in the 80's from Cobbe's Rod and Gun.

    Shot several rabbits with them.

    Really weird, because it looked like the round came from below before the strike.

    Ended up shooting them straight up in the air for fun, the wind really blows them about, showed me how the wind can change at different altitudes, too.

    Fun.


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