I'd like some IR tracers for the .50 BMG. Don't know where to start looking, would like 'em at a good price. Just seeing if anyone here has run across 'em.
Night Vision IR Tracer Ammunition
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You should be able to find 'low light' .50 cal tracers but I've never seen any true I.r. For a .50
Great, now I can't find the damn nomenclature for that round.
I think we may be talking about the same thing. A tracer with low glow that requires NODs to use properly... NODs will naturally see the back end of the bullet anyway, so any glow there will make it stand out.
Know where to find 'em? Or what the nomenclature is?
The only place I can find anything on them is on the Northrop Grumman page.
http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/50CalAmmunition/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/50CalAmmunition/Pages/default.aspx
I sounds an awful lot like a tracer for a Mk211 and I know obtaining those is like pulling teeth (and they cost a fortune) even though the amount of RDX in one round is perfectly legal for a single end use item. Out of my league, I have to make do with regular API/T.
I was hoping I'd be able to find 'em in pulldowns... But there's only info on 'em and none for sale. Probably too new to even be a pulldown I'm guessing.
Thanks for that info though, I do appreciate it.
If anyone runs across any of these for sale, just the pulled bullets and not the loaded ammo, please let me know.
I was hoping I'd be able to find 'em in pulldowns... But there's only info on 'em and none for sale. Probably too new to even be a pulldown I'm guessing.
Thanks for that info though, I do appreciate it.
If anyone runs across any of these for sale, just the pulled bullets and not the loaded ammo, please let me know.
Yeah i haven’t had much luck with IR tracer ammo at all. I could use some too.
The mk257 is what you are wanting, you can find them at gun shows every now and then.
The mk211 is a 'raufoss' round which is a whole different animal
The mk211 is a 'raufoss' round which is a whole different animal
Yeah, I didn't have much info on it, the description sounded kinda like the tracer version of the Mk211 and I can't remember the number for it either. Mk257... They definitely sound like APIT but I know they're not plain APIT either, I have those, silver/red tip. I'll have to ask around then, if they aren't too much I may bite. I need 'em for APIT tracers anyway so that's even better. Thanks.
Raufoss is the titties, not much stopping that. Only thing that ever cleanly penetrated the thick AR500 plates we used for targets at SDM school (they were pretty thick too, thicker than average). Not only that, it could punch through a second one a foot or two behind it. All we used in the M2's. As a lowly civilian now, I have to make do with 50yo API I load myself!
But in my time I never saw a low light tracer... Didn't know they existed until a year or so ago.
If you do not have to have armor piercing you can get the m17 (it's supposed to be 'dimmer' than standard tracers and you can find it fairly easily), but it's not API. The m17 has a brown tip.
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