Some moron used tracer rounds at this gun range.

[Integraholic]

Bad things happened.

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[pitbulld45]

Thats crazy

 

[Dj15802]

Oooooops!

 

[Mackey]

Man, look how black that smoke is.
There are going to be a lot of PO'd shooters in that area. Hate to be the dummy who caused this.

But what about a sprinkler system??
But come to think of it, I could see stray rounds striking exposed sprinklers and/or pipes.... But you'd think they'd be a little more prepared for something like this.

I bet they will be when / if they rebuild.

 

[DC47374]

Dang....hope insurance covers that. I doubt he'll ever get back in at that gun range...smh

 

[K_W]

One block quarentine due to exploding bullets... I recall a video by SAMMI that a firefighter stood next to 1000's of exploding rounds with naught a scratch.

 

[Signal23]

Myth busters did a show on bullets in a fire, if I remember right the casing was more dangerous than the bullet itself.

Still a bad deal for the range up in flames

 

[jblomenberg16]

Some nice rides in the parking lot, too.

 

[Brandon812]

Wow. That guy is probably ban for life at that place.

 

[zoglog]

Forget shooting down planes. Bullets burn buildings.

 

[warthog]

I hope he's more than banned for life, I hope he is doing time for this one.

Makes us all look bad.

 

[92ThoStro]

Hope they can recoup, that's sad. Now they might change policies and say you have to buy ammo from them ONLY and you can't bring your own. But that still wont fix it, there was already a rule against tracers indoors, and they obviously didn't care, so who knows what, if any policies, they will enact.

As far as exploding bullets go. Don't you need a chamber for the actual bullet or leadshot to be expelled at lethal velocity? With rifle/handgun ammunition you only have to worry about the casing. The fragments will explode (well explode is the wrong term, they will be shrapnel that will cause injury to people standing right next to them)

I always wondered what would happen if you shot a 22lr at a 12 gauge shotshell striking the primer.

 

[Integraholic]

Yeah, but a lot of people don't know that. Including cops and firefighters.

 

[Light]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c

 

[WhitleyStu]

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[THard6]

have any of you been to the range?
does it say no tracer rounds allowed?
maybe he was a new shooter, and didn't know what he was doing..
so quick to point fingers and judge, it's a shame.

still sucks the place burned, but that's what insurance is for!

 

[vitamink]

Yeah, but a lot of people don't know that. Including cops and firefighters.

That's strange because i know a few fire fighters that have been injured from exploding bullets.

Keep in mind that a 50 cal burning is like a pipe bomb.

 

[Integraholic]

That's strange because i know a few fire fighters that have been injured from exploding bullets.

Keep in mind that a 50 cal burning is like a pipe bomb.

That's still in pretty close proximity to the burning cartridge. The bullets don't have a shooting off effect as seen in movies. That's what I'm referring to.

 

[Integraholic]

have any of you been to the range?
does it say no tracer rounds allowed?
maybe he was a new shooter, and didn't know what he was doing..
so quick to point fingers and judge, it's a shame.

still sucks the place burned, but that's what insurance is for!

Any indoor range using a rubber backstop will have it posted. I'm pretty sure even the companies that install the backstops will tell the customers to not allow them. At our range, it's one of our biggest rules.

 

[MikeDVB]

That's depressing.