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Our new indoor rifle range burned up
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<blockquote data-quote="Timber338" data-source="post: 953284" data-attributes="member: 33822"><p>What a shame. Same thing happened to our outdoor range a few years back. Some idiot was shooting tracer rounds up into the rocks in the middle of summer. surprise, surprise, it started a fire and our range was shut down for months. And has never been the same even though we were lucky to re-open.</p><p></p><p>So anyways, I would assume it was tracers rounds at your range that caused the tire fire. Just thinking about it now, what temperature would non-tracer bullets be at when they shoot into a tire... would the heat get high enough after several hundred rounds were stuck all in about the same spot to cause combustion in the tire rubber??? I really don't know the answer to that. You said the barnes factory range uses the same tire-rubber backstop, but I would think a public range would see higher volume of fire, especially from guys with AR type rifles... lots of lead downrange in a hurrty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timber338, post: 953284, member: 33822"] What a shame. Same thing happened to our outdoor range a few years back. Some idiot was shooting tracer rounds up into the rocks in the middle of summer. surprise, surprise, it started a fire and our range was shut down for months. And has never been the same even though we were lucky to re-open. So anyways, I would assume it was tracers rounds at your range that caused the tire fire. Just thinking about it now, what temperature would non-tracer bullets be at when they shoot into a tire... would the heat get high enough after several hundred rounds were stuck all in about the same spot to cause combustion in the tire rubber??? I really don't know the answer to that. You said the barnes factory range uses the same tire-rubber backstop, but I would think a public range would see higher volume of fire, especially from guys with AR type rifles... lots of lead downrange in a hurrty. [/QUOTE]
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