Utah Fires, might end up in restricting target shooting

[wolverine_173]

So i have shot a lot and never had a problem. The news reports dont give any extra info so im wondering how a bullet starts a fire?

I have employed all my boy scout abilities trying to start a fire with flint and steel and i can never get a spark to catch unless i use a magnesium stick.

So are they shooting something explosive or shooting tracers? Even if you shoot rocks i dont think the spark would catch. the only reason magnesium does is because it burns like 10 times hotter than a normal spark.

im also concerned about restrictions being placed. If they do i fear in coming years it will only get worse because if shooting leads to just one fire after restrictions are in place people will argue one is too many and they will completely ban target shooting.

Utah gov says only legislature can make laws against it

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2108702 ... featured-1

So is legislature going to restrict it?

This whole thing makes me mad. Like the gov said there cant be laws to cover everything and if they start restricting it, it just wont end.

[TacAir]

Use a developed range with back stops.

There is an earlier post where a member indicated a 223/5.56 hitting rocks will, in fact, start a fire.

We used to shoot P dogs out on the flats in Millard county - but were always careful of our backdrop - as you should be in any case.

[Kutter_0311]

In Infantry School, our class earned the nickname 'Charring Charlie' because we burned down every range we fired live rounds on. The tracer mix in SAW drums is pretty hard on the dry vegetation during a hot California summer, I guess...

[wolverine_173]

Use a developed range with back stops.

case.

i think if they had a designated spot and made a pile of dirt for a backstop fires wouldn't happen.


i wish they would make a designated spot near the canyon i shoot at. i hate paying for a range, im in college and just cant afford it, bullets cost enough as it is.

[Blackhawk_tactical]

Shouldn't this be in ZS036 Chapter
Utah is backwards!
The out ranges have way to may rules like no prone.
And we are full of rednecks that shoot hairspray can etc. So what can you do
Also 90% of fires are man made. and not start by shooters.

[mystic_1]

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[Sheriff McClelland]

Ammo with steel jacket (copper wash) or with steel core will spark when it hits rocks on the back stop . Seen it many times .

[allofthemonkeys]

What Sheriff said. Plus last summer was so wet it made people forget that we are in a desert, plus it made the vegetation bloom like crazy so a lot more fuel for the fire. Also like Blackhawk said, we have a lot of rednecks who shoot way too much crap that we are not supposed to shoot.

[ArmchairRacer]

A couple years ago some people started a fire near my parents house by stuffing tannerite into a foam deer and shooting it. Rednecks

OT: Does anyone know if the ban ever actually went into affect? And if so, has it been lifted?