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I am trying to sort out how to handle this sort of situation: I was at the range today, training with my defensive handguns. I have randomly loaded snap caps (typically 1-2 per magazine). The whole point of my drills with snap caps is to react fast assuming a defensive situation: tap, rack, bang.
Worst case if I had a hang fire, it might go off when I tap (hand gun is kept safely pointed down-range), or when racking. Once ejecting and not in the barrel, what's to happen to the round? I believe I've actually had this scenario occur about a month ago. I was doing 5 target drills (top left, top right, middle left, middle right, bottom target twice, then working my back up), and somewhere in the middle I had the brass casing exploding all over me. I believe the round went down range (there were some 45s being shot in the nearby lanes - which is good for my drills having to deal with nearby firing, but bad to diagnose this situation). However, I'm not 100% certain. I may have tapped and racked. What are the scenarios in which I could get brass casing exploding and hitting me? Normally if it was in the barrel and the slide was closed, I don't see how that would occur. I was firing in rapid succession (including dropping the magazine and loading more), so I'm really not certain what did occur. This occurred with my Glock 26. Oh, and back to my drills, I don't think I'd change a thing at this point. My priority is defensive shooting. However, I really should be situationally aware, and if not in a real life defensive situation, and not shooting with snap caps, I should keep it downrange for 30 seconds and just sit tight. -- Edit: Had another thought - what if I'd had a stove pipe and the slide hadn't closed all the way? Could the next round have been loaded into the chamber and been fired? If it could, that would explain getting splattered with brass. Last edited by Jason95357; 01-11-2014 at 6:03 PM.. |
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Thanks for that reminder
Last weekend I taught a friends son the safety and handling of a semi pistol and after reading your post I realized I totally forgot to educate him on hangfires. I had gotten so comfortable with the way my guns shoot reliably that I didn't realize that its a very real possibility. Now I need to take him out again and teach him about hang fires. Awww shucks, I'll just have to suck it up and spend another morning of shooting. |
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When I was at ASR this past Sunday a guy 2 benches over had several .223s not fire out of his AR, I advised him not to eject them so quickly but he just ignored me and every time he did this I just tried to keep away, he blamed it on the AR not the ammo, said his AR was malfunctioning, hope he doesn't learn the hard way, BTW he was using Magtech ammo
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Your O/P should be printed and handed out at ALL the CGSSA and Appleseed shoots.
I'm going to print some up as a handout at the gun show booths. {with your permission}
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You see that little smiley face with the wink? That means it was a joke.
Last edited by joe_sun; 07-22-2014 at 9:39 AM.. |
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Pulled the trigger three time in a semi-rapid fire. First trigger pull went click, firing pin hit primer, but no bang. Second trigger rotated unfired round off the barrel position and fired the second round "Bang". Third trigger pull also went "Bang". OP then rotated unfired first round back to the barrel position, where it promptly proceeded to discharge on its own long after the primer was hit by the firing pin.
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The rule at our range is to keep the weapon pointed down range, and raise your non-firing hand for the range master. You aren't supposed to do anything but keep the weapon pointed down range until he or she arrives. |
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I have also been told the same thing. It is hard though when you are out in the boonies and there aren't range masters so it is good that this information is available.
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After I read this thread, the next time I went to the range, I put a snap cap randomly into a few of my magazines, just to practice how to react if the weapon doesn't fire.
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Hey thanks for the reminder. I Have a revolver and I will always keep this in mind as well as the others who may fire my gun. Moral of the story is to ALWAYS KEEP THE GUN POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION!!! and always pay attention to what is happening.
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In your OP you mention "moving to aim position and almost beginning to cock" Wouldnt that mean you indexed the unfired chamber to fire next, meaning it wasnt aligned with the barrel when the hangfire happened? Or did you mistakenly index the unfired round aligning it with the barrel, which would have ended up with dropping the hammer on an empty chamber after cocking, a mistake that just so happened to be fortunate for you? |
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