Tracer rounds are awesome! Why are tracer rounds awesome? Tracers light up the sky or shooting range with bright colorful streams trailing behind your Federal ammunition. Shooting tracers can turn a regular day of shooting into a sensational light show. Of course, tracers do serve some practical purposes too. Tracer ammunition is more that just regular ammunition with a red tip or orange tip and some cool colors. Tracer ammo uses a regular bullet with a hollowed out base filled with quick burning compounds and certain metals that emit the bright colors you see when you shoot. After a tracer round leaves the barrel, the pyrotechnic charge in the base of the tracer begins to burn leaving the trademark tail behind it, tracing the path of the bullet in flight.
Tracer ammunition has found uses in the military to guide a squad's fire toward a particular target, help gunners adjust aim on long range targets and even warn ground troops when their magazine is about to run out. For you, a few boxes of Federal tracer ammunition will let you see where your bullets are flying when shooting rapid fire. By loading a Federal brand tracer or two near the bottom of your magazine, you'll get a bright flare signaling the need for a magazine change before the bolt locks back. All in all, loading your firearm with tracers means an awesome, brilliantly colored day, or night, of shooting.