Tracer Rounds... Legal in Canada?

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Okay, this is my first post. I was just reading the FAQ and it said tracer rounds are legal in Canada... I have never seen any for sale and everyone I have ever asked said they are illegal (prohib).

Could this be true?? if so I got to go and buy some!

P.S. the emotions are awsome!
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They are much more expensive to ship, thus very few are ever imported. Most in Canada were brought up from the US, or imported by mistake in larger batches of ball ammo.
 
A novelty.... Really what good are they?
Who shoots after dusk anyway..?
I imagine they're not very accurate projectiles as for one... wouldn't their weight changes as they fly...
 
Well I wouldn't use a tracer round to hunt with or anything stupid like that. But they are just one of those things that are cool to have. Not to mention that would be pretty sweet blastin off a few rounds in the air on a dark night. (in the middle of nowhere of course)
 
Tracer rounds start forest fires. No joke.

Best used in the winter or after a p8ss-pourin' rain.

I've seen IVI 7.62 tracer go out to 1000M. Very cool to see how far the arc goes off target before the wind and gravity puts the bullet 'in it's place.'

:)
 
The battle of the bulge match out here had one guy using tracers in his iron sighted rifle engaging a "sniper" steel plate in a tower at 300m. I figure that's the best use of tracers i've seen. Otherwise a fun time can be had as the sun sets on a day at the range.

Best lesson to be learned for using tracers..... They work both ways.
 
easy to find here but very expensive the only one i ever saw in store where helley 22lr but sotres stop carrying them at some point
 
RylanBrissette said:
Not to mention that would be pretty sweet blastin off a few rounds in the air on a dark night. (in the middle of nowhere of course)
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Yeah, when people think of "shooting accident", starting a major forest fire doesn't always come to mind.

If I get some, I will be careful
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Yes, please be careful. You should always know where your bullet is going to end up.
 
Ball ammo is exempt from many HAZMAT rules, ie UN0012 and blanks, UN0014. Tracers are UN0343 and are subject to other rules. They cannot be loaded into all holds on a ship, they nust be shipped as HAZMAT in Canada, etc,
 
they are usually found at gun shows.there's a guy who is always at the south shore longueuil show (this sunday) who has most types and calibers but they are EXPENSIVE!!a couple or 3 bucks a round if i remember correctly.
 
There's a member here, I think Pat1911 IIRC, he was selling (and believe he still does) pulled tracer bullets for reloading. I bought a 1000 off him and so far, the results are perfect. Nothing very accurate, but fun to see the 'red-line'
 
Hey! Somebody actually reads my stuff. Right on.
(I'll ignore the fact that you doubted me;))

I bounced some out over the ocean once. You will hear the advice about not shooting at water becuase the bullet may ricochet. After firing a few rounds, I would say it most certainly will. One to the right, one slightly to the left, and one high up. Not a chance of predicting where they will go.
A good lesson learned.
 
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There's a member here, I think Pat1911 IIRC, he was selling (and believe he still does) pulled tracer bullets for reloading. I bought a 1000 off him and so far, the results are perfect. Nothing very accurate, but fun to see the 'red-line'
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I bought 1K off him as well in .22cal. Good guy to deal with.
 
I can still remember a night shoot with 4 ball 1 trace 7.62 going through C6's next to a pair of .50s that were chewing through straight tracer
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Brigade HQ told us to "expend all" as we were at the end of the fiscal year. 23,000 rounds of straight .50 tracer in addition to the 4 and 1 that was normally alloted for the shoot.

The point is that you could obviously see the rounds outgoing...and then you could see fragments of the tracer elements and portions of rounds, and full rounds deflecting off the steel in the target areas. Even with the rounds all impacting in the desired beaten zone, there was a lot "splash" in random directions.
 
"...blastin off a few rounds in the air..." Unsafe practice. Even out in the middle of nowhere. You have no idea who may be out there.
Tracers are not incendiary. The grass has to be extremely dry for a trace to light it. Some ranges can get extremely dry though.
They don't riccochet any more than any other bullet. Any time you see what appears to be a riccochet, it's not. It's the trace element coming off the back of the bullet. Said element doesn't make up enough of the bullet weight to matter. They're not very accurate because they're not made for great accuracy. Neither is regular ball ammo.
 
CanAm, the CF issues Small arms tracer ammunition (5.56mm, 6.5, 7.62mm) as 1.4S and UN 0012 (Cartridges for Weapons). .50 cal tracer is 1.4C UN 0339 (Cartridges for Weapons, Inert Projectile). I am curious as to where the UN 0343 came from, as I'm not currently at work where I could look it up. I've been certified as a dangerous goods shipper (air/land/sea) since the mid '80's.



Prairie medic, glad to hear that .30-06 tracer can be used at Shilo in the Battle of the Bulge Match. I just finished loading my .30-06 FMJ and Tracer for this years match about 2 hours ago. I also bought Projectiles fitted with a tracer element from Pat1911.
 
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Actually tracer is 0345. Tracers are not inert projectiles. 0343 is nitrocellulose, but it was stuck in my head as tracer. 4B1T maybe packed as the greater quantities designation, hence the confusion, but I don't have those indepth regs at hand regarding how the codes are awarded.
 
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