ttab Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Can you still buy .22 tracer ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Well they're still legal to buy (armour piercing and incendary are not though),but i think you'll struggle to find anyone who sells it in rimfire as its more commonly found in 5.56 and 7.62. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edenman Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 My father had some tracers a few years back, i believe they were made by RWS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul6806 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I can't get them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunderbuss Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Eley used to make them, branded ICI for the military. I remember using them on one of the CBQ ranges at Lydd/Hythe in the 80s. The range concerned was an NI scenario and they had various old PIRA type weapons operated on solenoid which would fire towards you :o Ish, into shot boxes below your firing position. A Tommy terrorist manequin would pop up, and you were supposed to give a contact report (stating high velocity/low velocity single shot or automatic fire), then a fire control order then engage the "terrorist" as a section. This was all using .22 tracer out of sub calibre inserts in SLRs. The guns firing towards you were 70/80s vintage IRA weapons like the M1 Garand and Thompson SMG. Great fun! But the terrorist guns and the solenoid firing mechanisms were always jamming. ISTR a lot of mil surplus .22 tracer being sold about 20 years ago, but not seen much since. Seems they have a fair bit in the US though..... And some newer looking Eley stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
activeviii Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Would love to get hands on some just to see where zinging ring off to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 If they're anything like the centrefire stuff often the core seperates and flies straight up! I've seen a few starburst on impact too which is quite cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 Well they're still legal to buy (armour piercing and incendary are not though),but i think you'll struggle to find anyone who sells it in rimfire as its more commonly found in 5.56 and 7.62. I would like to know more about armour piercing being illegal please. A few years ago a friend got a 1000 rounds from Radway Green. They have a tungten tip to assist armour piercing! I never noticed anything in law about armour piercing! U. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 I would like to know more about armour piercing being illegal please. A few years ago a friend got a 1000 rounds from Radway Green. They have a tungten tip to assist armour piercing! I never noticed anything in law about armour piercing! U. Click here and scroll down to ammunition. Are you sure they were genuine armour piercing because theres a lot of steel jacketed 7.62 in the UK at moment which people often mistaken for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunderbuss Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 I would like to know more about armour piercing being illegal please. A few years ago a friend got a 1000 rounds from Radway Green. They have a tungten tip to assist armour piercing! I never noticed anything in law about armour piercing! U. Firearms Act 1968 Ch 27 pt 1 Subject to section 5A of this Act, a person commits an offence if, without the authority of the Secretary of State [F1or the Scottish Ministers (by virtue of provision made under section 63 of the Scotland Act 1998], he has in his possession, or purchases or acquires, or sells or transfers— (a)any firearm which is disguised as another object; (b)any rocket or ammunition not falling within paragraph © of subsection (1) of this section which consists in or incorporates a missile designed to explode on or immediately before impact and is for military use; ©any launcher or other projecting apparatus not falling within paragraph (ae) of that subsection which is designed to be used with any rocket or ammunition falling within paragraph (B) above or with ammunition which would fall within that paragraph but for its being ammunition falling within paragraph © of that subsection; (d)any ammunition for military use which consists in or incorporates a missile designed so that a substance contained in the missile will ignite on or immediately before impact; (e)any ammunition for military use which consists in or incorporates a missile designed, on account of its having a jacket and hard-core, to penetrate armour plating, armour screening or body armour; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 Thanks, learn something every day. However, Radway Green 5.56mm has a tungsten cone shaped tip. Or did have. Or use to be sold to the public with said tip! I sectioned a bullet and found it difficult to cut and found the tungsten tip. I asked a chap who worked there howcome the special tip? He said the ammo was failing a standard NATO armour plate test for that ammo which required a certain amount of penetration at a certain angle on steel plate so they added the tip. This was a few years ago now, I pulled some and checked, may still have some and thats how I know they have a tungsten tip! If it still is the case I don't know and maybe the quoted law was after this event in my life(it was ages ago) circa the 90's. Anyone got any Radway Green 5.56mm to cut open? U. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 The big problem with tracer is that some of the bullet is taken up with the compound so they won't give quite the same ballistics as normal rounds. In fact they are quite often very "off" in their shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul6806 Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Bullet Colour Codes .... http://www.mosinnagant.net/t3p.asp I have used 'flash on impact' and tracer with the FCSA (red and green tip), and also seen 7.62 tracer heads for sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddog546 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 I used to use the RWS tracers probably 20 years ago,they were standard velocity and very bright after dark,on quiet nights you could hear them burning as they went away,easy to tell when you hit your target as the light went out!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankeedoodlepigeon Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 I had a google and someone said Peter Lawman sells it. I don't know as never been before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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