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Posted: 5/17/2021 5:19:48 PM EDT
| I stopped in a Rural King in Florida and they had a stack of 1200 round cases of tracers for $1300 a case. 1 single large spam can inside a green wooden crate. The can had 4 pull tabs. I did not grab a picture. It would be interesting but but not at $1+ a round. |
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According to a 2016 dated ATF document, tracers are not importable because they are not "sporting ammunition". I doubt that has changed. Tracers, API, etc.. have turned up in shipments of regular ball ammuniton by mistake over the years, but in relatively small quantities. For there to be stacks of it available at a retail store is surprising. The one constant is that the 7.62x39mm short range tracer and this tracer that have turned up in quantity recently are both Czech. Something has changed or this stuff slipped in un-noticed. |
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Quoted: According to a 2016 dated ATF document, tracers are not importable because they are not "sporting ammunition". I doubt that has changed. Tracers, API, etc.. have turned up in shipments of regular ball ammuniton by mistake over the years, but in relatively small quantities. For there to be stacks of it available at a retail store is surprising. The one constant is that the 7.62x39mm short range tracer and this tracer that have turned up in quantity recently are both Czech. Something has changed or this stuff slipped in un-noticed. What a bunch of crap this government has on the second amendment. "Sporting purpose". Lol |
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Yes, there were 6 cases here in Florida @ Rural King. I split a case with like minded friends at work. They wouldn't budge on the price even with buying multiple cases or open a can. I was going to post some cutaway pictures from the Czech armory. Got it! The top line, 2nd from the left is the tracer & the bottom line, the 2nd one on the right is short range training ammo which I also got from SG ammo before the chicom bug hit.  
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I started seeing this ammo show up in the RK near me back in May of this year, but stock tickets showed it was delivered back in March. The clerks said only one case had been sold of the 8 originally delivered. I bought a case & promptly sold it to folks who wanted it locally, but not in a case lot size & RK sold case lots only. $1299.95 was more than folks here could stomach. Knowing that it was not supposed to be here & sold online for upwards of $2.00 a round, I purchased another case before it was gone as the cases were starting to sell when people figured out what it was. Half of that was sold to more folks local so a 3rd case was purchased. All these were bought @ the insane price of $1299.95, then rumors started of RK dropping prices. My store wouldn't deal, but the Ocala store 60 miles to the South dropped their prices to $899.95, so it was off to get case number 4. In November, there was a MVPA meeting for military truck owners in Zephyrhills, FL. & the RK store there has the same ammo in an 8 case pile for $699.95, but I was done buying this ammo as no more folks wanted any. Odd things show up @ the weirdest places. My store late last month dropped their prices to $699.95 & they sold out selling at least a dozen or more cases this year. I can't see how this volume of Czech tracer ammo was imported & sold thru RK of all retail stores. |
They seem to light up at about 100 yards.  7.62x39mm, 115gr FMJ Tracer, Czech by Buffman RANGE, on Flickr7.62x39mm Czech Tracer Macros |
| For what it is worth, Czech and Yugo 7.62x39mm tracer cartridges have a copper foil moisture barrier at the base of the projectile (as seen in Buffman's excellent pics). Every other military spec. T-45 tracer type I've examined (Russia, WP, China, etc.) does not have one. Moisture is typically what kills tracer projectiles, so theoretically, these two types will store better/longer if that matters to you. |
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