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Any word on fire restrictions for shooting in the Desert? I know it normally happens around this time every year.

No fire restrictions state wide

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

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.

Yea, I never had even a close call on fire from shooting, maybe

JaiYa wrote: ↑May 25th, 2019, 8:52 am 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.

Steel core ammo is starting fires in dry seasons so save it for UN troops.

JaiYa wrote: ↑May 25th, 2019, 8:52 am 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.

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.

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.

Only time I have ever seen it was with tracers. Heard that steel jacket could start one shot 1000's never had it happen.

Bluewave wrote: ↑May 25th, 2019, 8:21 am Heard yesterday from fireman in Tucson, maybe within 2 weeks.....

That sounds about right.
There sure has been a lot of fire crews driving around Tonto National Forest the last 2 or 3 weeks.

JaiYa wrote: ↑May 25th, 2019, 8:52 am 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.

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...

omegaman wrote: ↑May 25th, 2019, 3:10 pm Only time I have ever seen it was with tracers. Heard that steel jacket could start one shot 1000's never had it happen.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah saw a small brush fire @ Rio Salado main range a few summers back just past the 300 yd gong.