0.25 Tracer Ammo

[Ian_Gere]

Since the OP seems satisfied with the thread outcome so far, I thought it'd be OK to broaden the scope of discussion a bit and ask everyone this: has anyone bothered trying to mix tracer and standard ammo in the same mag, real world stylee, say 1 in 5 light up? If so, how did you do it and how did it go?

I thought of 2 ways of doing it that would make the distribution accurate:

1) I have an old skool "speedloader", which came with my Ares L1A1 SLR - it consists of a 42cm long tube, with a slightly flared fitting on 1 end and a feed tube type fitting on the other, with a simple rod plunger, into which you stack BB's and then use the plunger to press them into the mag (which is why speedloader is in quotes above);

2) you could use 2 speedloaders, 1 holding each type of ammo - a light press for 1 tracer BB, followed by a full press for 4 standard BB's...

Of course you could also roughly mix the right quantities of each into a single speedloader and trust to statistics that they would load on average 1 in 5, but unless you were in a support weapon role firing loads, i expect that there would be many instances where the average would work out as something like 2 tracers followed by 8 standard which could balls up many a 'creep forward for a better angle' type plans...

 

[ImTriggerHappy]

I did it mixing one red tracer bb to two green tracer bbs. Used an old rod type speedloader. It was very pretty but a complete ball ache to do.

 

[proffrink]

For my M249 I'll likely just be dumping 2000 normal and 500 tracers in there before giving it a good shake. Should work out fine!

Problem with using two speedloadsers that I can see is it's incredibly hard to just eject a single BB without the one behind it rolling out onto the floor. Maybe hand load the single tracers and use the speedloader for the rest? I guess with a midcap that's pretty hard though as the tension increases.

 

[ImTriggerHappy]

For my M249 I'll likely just be dumping 2000 normal and 500 tracers in there before giving it a good shake. Should work out fine!

Problem with using two speedloadsers that I can see is it's incredibly hard to just eject a single BB without the one behind it rolling out onto the floor. Maybe hand load the single tracers and use the speedloader for the rest? I guess with a midcap that's pretty hard though as the tension increases.

Just use the tube and rod type loaders.

 

[proffrink]

Yeh, that's what I was agreeing with - rod seems the best way like you said earlier. I should've quoted Ian really.

 

[Ian_Gere]

Just use the tube and rod type loaders.

Yeh, that's what I was agreeing with - rod seems the best way like you said earlier. I should've quoted Ian really.

Except that, as we both said, it's a right ball ache to do...

You are right though, Prof, 2 BB's have to pass that little rocker thingumajig in the outlet of proper speedloaders for the 1st to be pressed into the mag, which means the 2nd will always drop out - doing it over an open bag/box would seem to be the only way forward. I never even considered mixed colours, Trigger, but yeah, I bet that did look TDB...

Thinking about it more though, specifically as a support gunner in near-total darkness, the random mix approach could trick the enemy into thinking they were facing more guns than just you...

 

[ImTriggerHappy]

Thinking about it more though, specifically as a support gunner in near-total darkness, the random mix approach could trick the enemy into thinking they were facing more guns than just you...

Didnt think about a tactical side I just did it because it was pretty and I am sad.Dont think it would work for me anyway the fact I generally come running in behind like a bellend gives me away.

I only have one play style, thats Zulu style attack. Run in screaming and hope for the best.