Can shooting into dry grass start a fire??

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matachango

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So I live in Utah and this has been an extremely dry year. I want to go do soe prairie dog shooting but I have heard rumors that you can start a fire simply by shooting into dry grass out in the dessert?? Does any one have any experience with this? I plan on shooting my 17hmr. Any opinions on this would be great. Thanks.
 
Debatable. Be smart about it. I would not want to be responsible for the fires here.

I bet you most people who have started fires here in Utah are not hunters. More than likely people trying to blow stuff up or think steel core is all the rage.
 
In the columbia basin it is ALWAYS dry. Unless you were close and hit a rock JUUUUST right. Otherwise it's the HE rounds into oxygen cylinders that start fires....
 
There is no verifiable proof that shooting in dry grasses using regular ammo will start a fire. NOT TO include tracers!
Thats a myth started by the media eons back. They have even blamed some of the recent CO fires on shooters, again NO proof.
I have shot many, many, many (lots) thousands of rounds through dry grass p-dogging, never a fire.
In my youth I have shot full propane bottles only to see them just spit out gas & never explode either.
This is one of those things the Myth Busters need to do again!
 
in theory no. copper and lead are non-ferrous metals and therefore shouldnt spark upon impact. (unless you are using mil surplus mild steel core)
but thats just my opinion..........
 
It's possible... provided... there's a steel plate in the grass and your ripping holes in it. But I'm thinking the fires started here in Utah attributed to people who are shooting has more to do with stupid peopleand less to do with firearms....just sayin..
 
The mussel flash May start a fire if your shooting through some dry grass.
It's the smoke you toss in to the weed before you shoot or your hot converter that you parked in the tall grass that starts a fire. Any thing else is abused!!!!
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AR's will start fires I know that for a fact. I lit some grass on fire with mine once. I dont know if it was the case that did it or if something came out of the gas block.
 
Originally Posted By: EJ ReichenbachAR's will start fires I know that for a fact.

My AR started the lawnmower and mowed the grass.

I don't know that for a fact, but I'm 98% sure it did.
 
Originally Posted By: doggin coyotesOriginally Posted By: EJ ReichenbachAR's will start fires I know that for a fact.

My AR started the lawnmower and mowed the grass.

I don't know that for a fact, but I'm 98% sure it did.

[beeep] I wish mine would start the lawnmower.Lol. You can say what you want but I am 100% sure my AR started the fire. Dont know if it would happen again but maybe.
 
Originally Posted By: EJ ReichenbachAR's will start fires I know that for a fact. I lit some grass on fire with mine once. I dont know if it was the case that did it or if something came out of the gas block.

Actually, when you lit the grass with the hot barrel of the AR you are sposed to SMOKE THAT DOOBIE and put the rifle back in the case until your brain thaws out. That grass was burnin' all right... What a waste...

Nah, just kidding, I am no pothead I just thought I would make a chuckle for some that may be here (have some suspicions)
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May be we need to shoot water pistols until the drought is over with.

May be. May be not!

Just got to be careful and for god's sake don't give the Lib's any reason to blame you. If a hunter or target shooter's catalytic converter caught the grass on fire it would still be the guns fault.

Global warming? I think the earths just getting closer to the sun and their telling us it's green house gases so we don't find out! LOL.
 


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