Tracers, Incendiary, and Tracer/Incendiary loaded ammo and loose bullets for reloading are available from this guy, Doug Haig out of Phoenix, or at least they were a few months ago when I bought some.
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He makes his own tracer and incendiary bullets, from pulled USGI and Russian bullets, using his own burn compound. I first used them about 15 years ago when I had an AKM, I was amazed how bright the green tracers burned in bright sunlight, and some blue tipped Incendiary, while not showing a trace on the way to the target, struck the target with a large blue fireball and sounded like a cannon shot out at the target.
I found his website and ordered some .310 tracer bullets to load in the 7.62 x 39. These look like a standard 123 grain FMJ, but only weigh 92 grains, as some of the lead core has to be removed to make room for the trace compound. I also ordered some .308 tracers and incendiary, these look like a .308 150 grain FMJ, but weigh 125 grains.
Doug recommends loading these bullets at whatever charge you have been using with the full weight bullets, as his are a good 25 grains lighter.
I loaded some of each and tested them in a valley about an hours drive from me, as there is a long ridge made entirely of a clay like dirt that has no vegetation whatsoever on it. You WILL start a fire if you shoot these into any vegetation.
The tracers won't start to burn until about 80 yards form the muzzle ( the "gasless delay" mix that GONRA was talking about ) so if you try to shoot them into a 100 yard backstop, you won't see much of a burn before impact. The Incendiary rounds out of my GSR didn't seem to go off at impact, but that could be due to not enough resistance from the clay like ridge I was shooting into.
He will make tracers in green, yellow, red and white. I believe he said he will do custom colors for an extra charge.
The ones I bough years ago had the tips painted for identification, but the loose ones I bought to reload were not painted, so I painted them with Testor's enamel, green for my 7.62x 39 tracers, and blue for the incendiary.
