Ammunition and explosives – Projectiles – Target marking
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-23
2008-09-23
Bergin, James S (Department: 3641)
Ammunition and explosives
Projectiles
Target marking
Reexamination Certificate
active
07426888
ABSTRACT:
A firearm ammunition device includes a cartridge with a projectile that is loaded with a tracer agent. When the projectile is fired and strikes a game animal, the impact causes the release and dispersal of the tracer agent from the projectile. The dispersed tracer agent identifies an enhanced-visibility trail of the fleeing animal. In example embodiments, the cartridge is provided by a centerfire cartridge, a shotgun cartridge, and a muzzleloading cartridge. The tracer agent preferably comprises one or more compounds that produce visible light to the naked eye and/or under a black light source. Example tracer agents include biological stains that produce visible light upon contact with blood, luminol or another chemiluminescent compound that releases light by a chemical reaction such as may occur when contacting blood, a basic salt such as sodium carbonate or another effervescence-inducing agent, a phosphorescent compound, or a fluorescent compound.
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Bergin James S
Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva PC
T&P Game Recovery, LLC
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