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Re: At last.....54r tracer goodness
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 4:26 pm
by nickb834
I've just done F range Sunday just gone - I couldn't hit the targets out on the right hand slope (circa 950m) as I'd no idea where the rounds were going - what I wouldn't have given for some 54R tracer.
I did have 7.62 NATO tracer but I reckon out of about 50 rounds only 1 lit up (visibly at any rate).....
Don't suppose your source can bring any more in eh?
Re: At last.....54r tracer goodness
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:56 pm
by froggy
No wonder you didn't have any spare ....
Re: At last.....54r tracer goodness
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:56 pm
by meles meles
ooooh , pretty !
Re: At last.....54r tracer goodness
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 5:39 pm
by snayperskaya
froggy wrote:
No wonder you didn't have any spare ....
Looked three times before I noticed the tracer!!! gunlike
Re: At last.....54r tracer goodness
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 5:33 pm
by saddler
Back to the topic - Just noted that the Finns used .303 tracer bullets in some of their Mosin tracer rounds - prior to them later designing a tracer bullet of their own.
The .303 tracer were sourced both from Britain & Italy
Re: At last.....54r tracer goodness
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 6:01 pm
by snayperskaya
saddler wrote:Back to the topic - Just noted that the Finns used .303 tracer bullets in some of their Mosin tracer rounds - prior to them later designing a tracer bullet of their own.
The .303 tracer were sourced both from Britain & Italy
I believe some people reload 54r with .303 bullets as they are both .311".I did have the chance of some WW2 .303 bullets but they were quite expensive and being 70+ years old I don't know if they'd still ignite.
Re: At last.....54r tracer goodness
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:23 am
by Maggot
snayperskaya wrote:saddler wrote:Back to the topic - Just noted that the Finns used .303 tracer bullets in some of their Mosin tracer rounds - prior to them later designing a tracer bullet of their own.
The .303 tracer were sourced both from Britain & Italy
I believe some people reload 54r with .303 bullets as they are both .311".I did have the chance of some WW2 .303 bullets but they were quite expensive and being 70+ years old I don't know if they'd still ignite.
The batch of 762 RG I took up were all but useless and were 80s vintage. I gave them to ChrisB for plinking with!!!