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2,300 houses evacuated, 4,000 acres burned by target shooter ?
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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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To: LukeL
bullet hit a rock and sparked the fire

It seems the BLM stooges bought into the Hollywood notion that bullets spark. I hadn't thought through the gun control angle when this started in earnest with the First Blood series.

61 posted on 06/23/2012 2:48:05 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Java4Jay

Does not anyone read the article?


62 posted on 06/23/2012 3:28:27 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Fun for women ages 21 through 35)
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To: Forty-Niner
All’s I can tell you is that there are steel jacketed rounds sold routinely at gun shows around here. NOT cases. Pretty sure this is the stuff:
http://www.deadzeroammo.com/762-x-39-Golden-Tiger-124gr-FMJ-BT-Steel-cased-20rd-box-4605837000764.htm

Note the “bimetal” jacket. Looks like copper but really is just a light plating of it. Scrap the copper off and it is steel - very soft. I have some WW1 7mm FMJ that is steel also. A good magnet will hold the bullet up off a table.

63 posted on 06/23/2012 7:23:52 PM PDT by Ronon
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I stand partially corrected...still these are not stell jacketed but rather steel core with a copper jacket.....a steel jacket, even a “soft stell one would erode a barrel pretty quickly unless it was a smothbore.

The linked rounds appear to have enough copper on them to prevent erosion of the barrel’s rifling....


64 posted on 06/23/2012 8:33:22 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry bear formerly known as..........Ursus Arctos Horribilis.)
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