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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Shooting Ranges - Places To Shoot
Sparks and AR500?
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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1610618" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>Snowbird: At long ranges the heat energy being created by the impact is substantially less and much less likely to generate much in the way of sparks. It'll still generate extremely hot fragments of copper, some of which may be large enough to retain sufficient heat to start a smolder. Regardless of the distance, do the right thing: Take a little effort and clean the area around your targets for 6ft or so of brush all the way down to the dirt. Don't use any unhardened steel (stick with AR500) and occasionally take a weed whacker to the area outside that to keep the fuel content low. In dry months it's just a little walk to go out and pour some water around the area while you inspect impact zones for excess brush. </p><p></p><p>I don't recall what distance they were shooting from in the study I linked but using the above protocols for a number of years has kept our range from burning and we have matches there all the time with 2500 rounds going downrange against steel targets in a very dry and grassy area.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1610618, member: 96226"] Snowbird: At long ranges the heat energy being created by the impact is substantially less and much less likely to generate much in the way of sparks. It'll still generate extremely hot fragments of copper, some of which may be large enough to retain sufficient heat to start a smolder. Regardless of the distance, do the right thing: Take a little effort and clean the area around your targets for 6ft or so of brush all the way down to the dirt. Don't use any unhardened steel (stick with AR500) and occasionally take a weed whacker to the area outside that to keep the fuel content low. In dry months it's just a little walk to go out and pour some water around the area while you inspect impact zones for excess brush. I don't recall what distance they were shooting from in the study I linked but using the above protocols for a number of years has kept our range from burning and we have matches there all the time with 2500 rounds going downrange against steel targets in a very dry and grassy area. [/QUOTE]
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