Message no. 1

From:	"Chad S. Mawson" <csm2747@************.EDU>
Subject:	Tracers and such
Date:	Thu, 8 Apr 93 23:55:42 CDT

My info comes partly from the game Top Secret, but mostly from a couple of
friends in the Army.

Tracers...Solid round with a hollow base (rear-end of the bullet) it's plugged
with magnesium. When the powder explodes, it ignites the magnesium. The
magnesium burns very brightly. Granted there isn't much magnesium in the
bullet, there's plenty there for the short time a bullet is in the air. (read:
effective range) Tracers are normally stacked in a clip as the fifth round,
tenth, fifteenth etc. In automatic weapons there isn't any reason to have all
the bullets be tracers. The only real problem is that with burning magnesium
in the rear of the bullet it does weird tumbles/rotations/variations on the
funky chicken. Another bonus is that enemies being shot at with tracers get
the heck scared out of them. It's much scarier being able to see the rounds
coming at you.

Anyway, take what you want, make your own modifiers or whatever. I personally
believe these rounds should be allowed.

Dikoting...Why not? Expensive as all heck but...hey...it's only a game.
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