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can anyone help :yp:

i was reading on hear the other day and someone mentioned tracer cartriges. I thought these were a good idea and wanted to buy some to see where i was going wrong .

so i rang my local gun dealer and asked him about them and he said they stopped making them is this true or does any one know where i can buy some from.

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Keep your aim in front of em cause there will be a lot of shot tailing through if your behind it will never get em,if you see feathers you only just reached its tail,dont forget to keep the follow through going,ie dont point and shoot,then one day if like me you might hit one :yp:

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Keep your aim in front of em cause there will be a lot of shot tailing through if your behind it will never get em,if you see feathers you only just reached its tail,dont forget to keep the follow through going,ie dont point and shoot,then one day if like me you might hit one ;)

:yp: hopefully one day mate :good:

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Save your money, you will learn nothing from using tracer loads at Pigeons, you may even set the farmers fields on fire, so you'll be popular then. :yp:

 

Have a lesson at your local shooting ground instead, you'll learn much more that way.

 

Cat.

 

Thats the best advice you will get, so forget tracer cartridges.

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The later generation of tracer cartridges were a little bit more advanced than having a tracer stuck to the wad , It consists of a aluminium insert with barium nitrate /fine magnesium mix that was ignited by a jet of hot gas going through a channel in the wad to the tracing element inserted on top of the wad and under the shot , When the shot leaves the wad behind the tracer insert goes with the shot,

Different sizes and weight of insert were used to try to match the ballistic trajectory of the different sizes of shot used in the tracer cartridges , when I have seen them used and used them myself if you broke the clay the tracer had actually hit the clay or was very close to it, But 25 quid for a box of 25 is just plain daylight robbery.

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I've had a box of those! From the back of my local shop coverd in dust £5 they were! I found them a good aid,but there's no substitute for practice,you just adjust you're lead until you hit the clay,why pay silly money for something you don't really need? Also I'm sure you can only use them at a cpsa registered shoot.

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