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krispos42

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Wed Feb-20-08 03:58 AM
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101. Hmmmm.... maybe he was too close?

Some of them take a few dozen yards to "light up", I understand. IIRC, they tried doing that on "Mythbusters", shooting a gasoline tank with tracers. I believe it was from a .223. Anyway, the tracers on a .223 apparantly use the friction of the bullet moving through the air to ignite, and they weren't having any luck because they were too close to the tank. Once they backed up a little they eventually got it to ignite.

:shrug:

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