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I started reloading some .223s using some 62 grain tracer bullets. These bullets are very long so when they're seat to Max overall length I know the powder is compressed in the case. I've been aftraid to fire the fearing overpressure. Would under-filling each case be a problem as long as the tracer round makes it out of the barrel? | ||
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Use a starting load listed for 62 grain bullets and you'll be good to go. | |||
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 Years ago I ruined a pristine 30 cal. 4 groove 03A3 barrel by shooting about 100 rounds of tracer ammo through it. FYI  rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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Milt, are you starting with max loads?? If you are, that's a strategy for disacter. Back off 10% and work up carefully. If you are still uncomfortable, back off some more, (but not to less then a 60% load density) This is how you protect yourself from variations in powder lots, brass thickness, and chambers. Bases on your questions, I must ask, do you have a loading manual, and have you read it? | |||
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Roger, I have heard of this happening, and not saying it didn't happen to you, but I still have a hard time believing it. All the tracers I've loaded and fired never lit until they had exited the barrel. I've removed the tracer compound from milsurp bullets and as near as I can tell it's pretty much the same as the stuff road flares are made from. Even if they do light up in the barrel they can't add all that much heat or pressure to what's already going on in the barrel. Or can they? | |||
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Can you buy tracer bullets to reload with? and if so where? | |||
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http://wideners.com/itemview.cfm?dir=278|281|1146 Shipping to Canada might be problem. | |||
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Hardly any lit up anywhere; in the barrel or in the air. They did ,however deposit a lot of granular material in the barrel after each shot. The rifle went from something around 1.000" to over 3.000" at 100 yds.Oh! It happened all right. rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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Bart, How old were they? | |||
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Yup, bet the "granular material" was what did it in. Bummer. | |||
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 Don,t really know. This was about 1958 and someone made up a whole machine gun belt of tracers. I suspect they were WWII vintage.  rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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I have shot a lot of tracers with no problems, except starting some fires...  However here is a random thought. When fired the pressure on the back of the bullet is, say several thousands... So do you really think that any of that tracer material gets out the back of the bullet, before it leaves the barrel??? If thise tracers were WWII they no doubt had corossive primers. The chunks od stuff left in the barrel would have been unburnt powder. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Back in the day when I was an M60 gunner, we ran the tracers every 5th round...when we used them. We were always told you didn't want to run them any more often then that, because it was hard on the barrels, but I don't recall what the reason was. | |||
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 Very possible. rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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