22 tracers?

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I realize that the border has been stopping the importation of tracer rounds lately due to some idiots starting grass fires; but I know they are neither illegal to produce, nor own. So I was wondering if I could get my hands on either .22 or 7.62 x 39 mm.
 
Hi. It's not the border or idiots. It's NRCAN. They decided to make law by regulation and deny the importation of tracers.
.22 trace is kind of scarce. Shows up at gun shows occasionally. So does 7.62 x 39 trace. Few ranges will allow you to shoot either.
 
EE? Ah, well theres a show soon. There has to be someone producing it here right? please tell me someone is! Can I not drive down to the states and pick up some myself? Is that considered 'importation'?
 
silly question...

what would happen to an animal if shot with a tracer? chicken, rabbit, yote, etc.

I know you can't hunt with fmj's (7.62x39 milsurp), but you can blast predators.

is it a clean killshot, based on shot placement of course...

is the hide (assuming furbearer) still marketable?

I'm just curious, as I can see a benefit of carrying some, if luring yotes on a lake and shooting at 300+ yards... but not if the pelt will be ruined. wolves not so much as they are usually mangier, and the bounty still applies
 
For what it's worth, I recently bought a box of Gévelot .22LR tracers; says on the back that any game taken with tracer ammo is not fit for consumption.
 
No source to speak of, it was a private sale of what amounts to a single box of "collector-grade", thirty-year-old ammo.

For shootable tracers, I stick to 7.62 ;)
 
what would happen to an animal if shot with a tracer? chicken, rabbit, yote, etc.
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The animal will die, same as if shot with a normal bullet.

is the hide (assuming furbearer) still marketable?
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What exactly are you expecting? The animal to burst into flames or something?

The trace compound is in the back end of the bullet. As a FMJ configured bullet, it will most likely go straight through the animal without hardly slowing down. The hydraulic cavitation produced by the transit of a supersonic projectile through a 60% water medium would mean the back end of the bullet would never touch the flesh.
 
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