ID these 22lr?

[hammo]

A better pic of the RWS tracers, not as blurry!

 

[Foxyboy43]

There you go - lots of happy memories!

 

[M@tt]

Very many years ago Eley .22 lr Tracer were a “brilliant” introduction to just how unpredictable a ricocheting .22 is - great fun too….

I think it's often the tracer element falling out of the bullet that you see, not the bullet itself.

I've seen the tracer hit atarget and deflect upwards and away but the bullet go through and hit the ground/backstop behind or, on an etr, the target behind, both 22lr and full-bore.

 

[Foxyboy43]

I think it's often the tracer element falling out of the bullet that you see, not the bullet itself.

I've seen the tracer hit atarget and deflect upwards and away but the bullet go through and hit the ground/backstop behind or, on an etr, the target behind, both 22lr and full-bore.

How very strange. Many years ago shooting rabbits with Eley tracers was great fun - as in the video the arc of the tracer round was clearly visible until it hit the rabbit then there was a four inch break in the trace before the solid round went on its way away into the distance. I don’t think the tracer coating would have the energy to do that…

 

[tackb]

I think it's often the tracer element falling out of the bullet that you see, not the bullet itself.

I've seen the tracer hit atarget and deflect upwards and away but the bullet go through and hit the ground/backstop behind or, on an etr, the target behind, both 22lr and full-bore.

i'm not sure about this , i've pulled tracers and it's just a compound in the back end of the jacket , maybe the bullet broke in half ?

i have also seen tracer come out of a sand backstop on a range (which is why i think they are banned on gallery ranges , not because they ricochet but because you can see them!)

plus , the tracer goes too far and too fast to just be a light tracer element

 

[M@tt]

You could be right, sometimes things happen so fast that it is hard to put them in the correct order.
I've fired so much tracer over the years, the full-bore/small-bore distinction can get blurred. Never pulled a small-bore tracer.
At StanTA on a night shoot there was one that appeared to split into two, both traces went up and forward, but one straight up, the other off to the side. That would have been full-bore though.
We did set fire to the ranges on at least a couple of occasions.

Tracer is always fun. This was a longish exposure and it was a lot darker than it appears here.

 

[hammo]

Fired a couple and they both worked fine!
100% reliable so far, can't upload the clip, file format not accepted.

 

[hammo]

Managed to get this still from the footage.

 

[DesG]

This is them. I had about forty left from the eighties. About 1 in 6 lit up. We fired them from a CZ455 at 100 yards. They burnt from around 20yards to 80 or so. They were certainly burnt out at 100. I used to fire them from my Ruger mk1 target pistol when I walked the dog on an old airfield. They were great fun at night..

 

[DesG]

i'm not sure about this , i've pulled tracers and it's just a compound in the back end of the jacket , maybe the bullet broke in half ?

i have also seen tracer come out of a sand backstop on a range (which is why i think they are banned on gallery ranges , not because they ricochet but because you can see them!)

plus , the tracer goes too far and too fast to just be a light tracer element

When we were firing the LMGs back in the day, it was not fun being in the butts. The bullets would hit the sand and the tracer element had a habit of squirting back at the poor buggers trying to avoid it. This was in the terrible days before 'elf n safety when we thought these things were fun before we were told it wasn't.

 

[DesG]

Better yet, I've just found an almost full box.

 

[tackb]

Better yet, I've just found an almost full box.

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let us know if they light up ?

 

[hammo]

let us know if they light up ?

I have fired six of mine and every one has traced ok. I have about twenty five left. Sixteen inch barrelled CZ457.

 

[bobo]

Got 2 cartons of these, assume they have been used for some kind of practice shooting by some people who made an 5 year long unwelcome stay in my country about 85 years ago.
Fired a lot of them and not one single misfire or abnormal shot, they knew how to make quality back then.