Tracer questions

[PhillipM]

I've often seen tracers in stripper clips and wondered why one would want 10 rounds of tracer consecutively. Were they loaded that way as directional fire pointers by NCOs or officers?

[Tuna]

I know at one time CMP was selling spam cans of them in strippers.

[duke133]

Since they work both ways I wouldn't want more than 1 per stripper if that many. I let some friends fire off some tracers through a Garand a couple years ago at a friends farm. Next thing they know they're running across a field to put out a brush fire. I just sat back and enjoyed my Coke chuckling inside. Up until the fire they thought it was "cool".
Come to think of it, I never saw a full stripper of tracers for the 14, mostly on belts so I would guess the one you saw was just for show. Any tracers I have are in strippers all by themselves so they don't get mixed up with the ball. My AP's are also by themselves.

[n64atlas]

[PhillipM]

Since they work both ways I wouldn't want more than 1 per stripper if that many. I let some friends fire off some tracers through a Garand a couple years ago at a friends farm. Next thing they know they're running across a field to put out a brush fire. I just sat back and enjoyed my Coke chuckling inside. Up until the fire they thought it was "cool".
Come to think of it, I never saw a full stripper of tracers for the 14, mostly on belts so I would guess the one you saw was just for show. Any tracers I have are in strippers all by themselves so they don't get mixed up with the ball. My AP's are also by themselves.

Not for show, that is how they were packaged.

[duke133]

Not for show, that is how they were packaged.

I wonder what that is worht today?
Thankis for the pic. The STL box is interesting. Guess they are not corrosive since it carbine ammo, if memory serves me correctly.

[PhillipM]

Apparently it's about a buck a round!

http://www.ammogarand.com/30-carbine-m27-tracer-600rd-orig-spam-can-la.html

[n64atlas]

There is corrosive carbine ammo out there. There was some Korean ammo that came in, back in the 80 as I recall
It is marked LC but is not LC and is corrosive>

[Johnny P]

7.62 X51 tracer in boxes. A local shop had a case of it several years back.

[gwp]

There is corrosive carbine ammo out there. There was some Korean ammo that came in, back in the 80 as I recall
It is marked LC but is not LC and is corrosive>

There is some Chinese carbine ammo marked LC 52 that is corrosive and berdan primed.

[n64atlas]

might be the same stuff. This is marked 52. The L and C are spread out further than regular 52 LC

[PhillipM]

The boxes marked 7.62mm are all the fake Chinese LC 52

[emmagee1917]

No , that would make sense . I found when shooting cars , if you wanted to set them on fire , you had to stop the tracer in the upholstery or dashboard . There it would burn and spread . A carbine has limited power , so getting stuck in beams , floors , walls , haystacks and the like rather than passing on through is what you'd want .
Chris