There seems to be a theme here that somehow fires which may or may not have been caused by gunfire are some kind of anti-gun theme.
Let's face it folks, it can and does happen. How many times have we corrected each other that gun powder burns, it does not explode? How many times have we revelled at the incredible fireball produced by a carbine length Mosin Nagant?
So I will stipulate that the antis will cite shooting as the cause of this or that wildfire and attempt to make their brand of hay with it.
However, we need to understand that with this drought gripping a pretty good part of the US right now, we have to be careful. It hasn't rained a drop here in Indiana since probably March...at least that I can remember. There isn't even any dew on the grass in the morning. Those who bushcraft and make fire with flint steel and tinder are probably having a real good year...everything is tinder.
So be careful out there and let's not give anybody any cause to criticize us. Shoot you .22lr instead if your carbine length Mosin Nagant. Maybe give the old smokepole a couple weeks off...etc.