{"id":2771,"date":"2016-04-01T07:07:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2016-04-01T07:06:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:06:49","slug":"friday-1-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/04\/01\/friday-1-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 1 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

08:06 –<\/span> We got a lot of science kit stuff done yesterday, with more on the schedule for today.
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I think I’ve mentioned .308\/7.62mm API’s (armor-piercing incendiaries) “blue tips” in the past. They’re a handy thing to have on hand. From personal experience firing them, they’ll punch a nice hole in a steel engine block, and the incendiary charge is more than enough to ignite gasoline, and often even diesel. I used to have a bunch before I accidentally lost them in the lake.
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As far as I remember, the ones I lost were heavy hand-loads made with pulled bullets, which may have been US-issue .30-06 bullets or NATO 7.62mm bullets. They had very pale blue tips, robin’s egg blue or even sky blue, not the darker blue tips found on some current US-issue (frangible?) ammo. I believe the charge is white phosphorus. I do remember that they generated a bright flash when the bullet hit even thin metal like an auto body (we used to shoot at junked cars a lot…). Presumably the tungsten penetrator core continued unaffected by losing the incendiary compound that surrounded it.
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I was going to recommend that everyone pick up at least a few rounds of this stuff, but as far as I can tell it’s no longer available, except perhaps under the counter at a gun show. That’s a pity.
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08:06 – We got a lot of science kit stuff done yesterday, with more on the schedule for today.\n<\/p>\n

I think I’ve mentioned .308\/7.62mm API’s (armor-piercing incendiaries) “blue tips” in the past. They’re a handy thing to have on hand. From personal experience firing them, they’ll punch a nice hole in a steel engine block, and the incendiary charge is more than enough to ignite gasoline, and often even diesel. I used to have a bunch before I accidentally lost them in the lake.<\/p>\n

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