Thursday, March 07, 2019

Tracers at Night

This is why range fans and impact areas have to be so large.  As beautiful and compelling as this photo is, it gives some indication of what happens to bullets when they strike something.  And, sure as gravity still works, they are going to come down somewhere.

OINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, AK, UNITED STATES 03.04.2019 - Army Spcs. Dariel Barbosa, left, and Mitchell Bundy, assigned to Blackfoot Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, fire M249 light machine guns at night during live-fire training at Grezelka range, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 4, 2019. Utilizing the M249 light machine gun and M240L machine gun, the Spartan paratroopers honed their marksmanship skills by engaging multiple targets at varying distances. Barbosa and Bundy are natives of Fajardo, P.R. and Wilmington, N.C., respectively. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)
Hat tip: Strategy Page

2 comments:

Dave said...

And for each tracer you see, there are 4 ball rounds that you don't.

Old NFO said...

Yep, they DO come down eventually... sigh