Fire Restrictions
- lone_wolf
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Fire Restrictions
Any word on fire restrictions for shooting in the Desert? I know it normally happens around this time every year.
- Rock Hardson
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Re: Fire Restrictions
No fire restrictions state wide
- Bluewave
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Re: Fire Restrictions
Heard yesterday from fireman in Tucson, maybe within 2 weeks, I was up on Mt.Lemmon, last weekend rain was good, but the heat coming
- JaiYa
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Re: Fire Restrictions
On some BLM land, at least in my experience, you could shoot in the summer and no restrictions. But, is shooting *really* going to start a fire? I think the chances are almost non existent.
- Bluewave
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Re: Fire Restrictions
Yea, I never had even a close call on fire from shooting, maybe
Re: Fire Restrictions
Steel core ammo is starting fires in dry seasons so save it for UN troops.
Re: Fire Restrictions
I once saw a round start a fire in the expansion joint of the floor in an indoor shooting range. Pretty impressive blaze for a while.
- Harrier
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Re: Fire Restrictions
at a group shoot back east in 2001 there was a hillside fire we had to put out but then there were several full autos blasting tracers too...
lead & copper really doesn't spark much.
lead & copper really doesn't spark much.
Re: Fire Restrictions
Only time I have ever seen it was with tracers. Heard that steel jacket could start one shot 1000's never had it happen.
- DrEarlCordova
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- azrik
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Re: Fire Restrictions
But there's always some nitwit out there that will decide to shoot "Firedragon" shotgun loads like what happened the last fire a Sycamore Creek...
Re: Fire Restrictions
I have personally witnessed 855 ball start a fire. Never would have believed it if I didn't see it with my own eyes. That was a few years ago on Table Mesa, guys shooting next to me were shooting it and they started a fire. It was dry early that year and they shut it down a couple days later. Hit rocks with AP ammo and sparks can and do fly, if it's dry it can start a fire.
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On one pre-monsoon, heat of the summer day several years ago I went to a dry cattletank that I had shot at for years to try out a new to me Big 5 special M48 Mauser. Using some Turkish milsurp (which I believe had a mild steel core), I saw a spark that suddenly/somehow had a small bush going that was about 2 feet from my paper target.... I ran over and stomped it out, and left with a new understanding as to how it CAN happen.
Re: Fire Restrictions
Seen it with tracers, 303 Brit, .30-06 and 8mm Mauser.
All it needs is a spark and dry kindling.
And then you are dragging the shovels out of the back of the pickup and spending a couple of hours stomping out fires cuz your friend won't listen and was shooting at some rocks to see his ammo spark.
All it needs is a spark and dry kindling.
And then you are dragging the shovels out of the back of the pickup and spending a couple of hours stomping out fires cuz your friend won't listen and was shooting at some rocks to see his ammo spark.
- mdin14
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Re: Fire Restrictions
Yeah saw a small brush fire @ Rio Salado main range a few summers back just past the 300 yd gong.