223 Tracers

23 Dec 07

Tracers:

American Eagle (Federal Cartridge) is now making 223 XM856, tracers. Jensen' s in Loveland, CO has a good supply. Bullets have a red tip, and they work the same as the ones I remember!

Tracers are useful mostly with machine guns as they provide a visual indication of exactly where the stream of bullets is going. However, they are also useful during the rifle zeroing process, and they are very useful as a training tool, as they show students, in real time, what a bullet'strajectory actually looks like.

Tracers are designed, among other things, to start fires, and they function only too well in that regard! So, one must be careful when using them on grassy, outdoor ranges, and they should not be fired into rubber bullet traps!

For the longest time, tracers were available only from military sources. Not any more!

/John