Posted on 06/22/2012 8:37:33 PM PDT by Java4Jay
Bureau of Land Management officials say they believe the blaze was caused when a bullet hit a rock and sparked the fire. This is the 20th target-shooting related fire this year in Utah, they said.
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Guess who?
Lefty Ken Salazar who serves at the pleasure of Barack Hussein Obama. Heck, Fast and Furious went bust! They gotta try something else. :^)
No but bullets can cause sparks by smashing one rock against another.
Here in the west everything is kindling right now. Or, as they say, tinder dry. Worst I've ever seen it.
“Al Qaeda threatening to start wildfires”
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=8646527
The chances of you getting a fire started by that combination of circumstances are about as good as you being able to fly to the moon on the wings of a turtledove. Pretty much ZERO or less than.
THE GUN BAN LOBBY REACHING, Sounds more like the eco nazis are at it again
This is a scenario I have been thinking more and more about this summer. We know they are here somewhere. This is something the terrorists could do to us pretty much at will, it’s cheap, all it takes is a match, the damage to local economies is terrible.
How could we possibly defend against such action? Oh there is that border security nonsense. S/
I take it someone found the target neatly placed by a shell casing. Maybe a little burned around the edges for effect.
Hollyweird special effects pyrotechnics, only. In 55yrs of shooting, I’ve never seen it happen w/ lead or copper rounds.
There goes the spam cans of 7.62x39 from gun shows.
“they believe the blaze was caused when a bullet hit a rock and sparked the fire. This is the 20th target-shooting related fire this year in Utah, they said.”.....
The “20th target-shooting related fire”......REALLY?
And the power of suggestion once again points it’s finger and guns and shooting. Pathetic. First, lets get the facts before we condem the shooting sport. As previously stated, almost all bullets are made from copper and lead. I would like to see how you get a spark from copper or lead when they are shot from a rifle. Steel bullets MAYBE.
They closed a sand pit in our area as they didn’t want lead in their fill. They suggested we shoot in the open flat lands. And the big bad enforcers carried guns - sceered us.
Incendiary rounds, yes; copper or lead, no. Errant cigarette/cigar butt, more probably.
Anti-2nd Amendment A-G-E-N-D-A is in-play, here.
I have seen two fires started with target shooting in the West. First you have to understand that on a typical day in the high desert the humidity is 10%. Second in areas covered in basalt there can be VERY high iron content in the rocks. Third many shooters are using steel jacketed rounds for AK style weapons. If there is cheat grass around on a typical Summer day it will ignite simply by looking at it to hard.
Twenty fires unlikely, but a few I believe it.
“Third many shooters are using steel jacketed rounds for AK style weapons.”
No such thing. There are armor piercing rounds this a steel nose insert surrounded by lead/copper but they are expensive or difficult to buy (cop Killer bullets?), and Russian Mfg ammo usually have steel cartrige cases, but none...none are steel jacketed.
Think about it! How long would a rifle barrel last if you shot steel jacketed bullets through it????.... only a very few rounds before the barrel split or the lands worn completely down....
BLM ping
There haven't been any Frenchmen running since John F'n Kerry, who served in Viet Nam.
I agree but I thought it would good to mention that conditions our here are worse than they have been in my 57 years. A hot babe walking through the woods would be enough to set it all ablaze.
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