{"id":94565,"date":"2018-09-23T01:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T05:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=94565"},"modified":"2018-09-23T01:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:07:58","slug":"streak-visual-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/streak-visual-ammo\/","title":{"rendered":"Streak Visual Ammunition – Light up the Sky With Range Safe Tracers"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Streak<\/a>\n

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Earlier this year, we had a press release that at first had me saying, \u201cWhy?\u201d I am speaking about Streak Visual Ammunition,<\/a> of course. Fortunately, for once I asked questions instead of running on my assumptions. It turns out that Streak Ammunition is actually cool. In this case, literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n

From just a glance, Streak looks like handgun caliber tracer ammo. That was not something I cared about. I have known about 9mm tracers ever since I was introduced to the SMAW rocket launcher decades ago. The USMC variant of that system uses a 9mm tracer\/spotter to adjust before you shoot the rocket part. Anyway, not once after that did I go looking for tracers for my handgun. Because it turns out conventional tracer rounds have a lot of downsides. (Also, it turns out that the SMAW uses a 9 x 51mm round, which is a long way from 9mm Luger. Not that I tried or anything.)<\/p>\n\"Streak<\/a>\n

Normal tracers have some upsides, but the negatives are pretty big too. One, they cut both ways. As in, you can see where your bullet goes, but whoever you are shooting at can see where it came from. Two, they have a nasty habit of setting things on fire. Sometimes you want that result, but not always. It sucks to have to stop training to put out a forest fire, for instance. Or be the FNG that burns down a $7 million dollar shoot house blessed off by the SecDef himself for construction. And believe it or not, that was not an isolated incident. Several shoot houses have gone the same way over the years. And three, they fly really strangely. A conventional tracer is actually burning up as it moves across the sky, losing mass and shape.<\/p>\n

Streak has fixed all of this by creating a cold tracer. As in, not on fire, not even a little bit. Streak uses a special luminous coating on the back of the bullet, which drops the chance of accidental burning to nothing. The construction also has a side benefit: the tracer becomes unidirectional. As in, if it is coming at you, you can\u2019t see it, which is pretty cool in a tactical sense.<\/p>\n