A friend asked me if I ever heard of a .22 single action handgun setting off all 6 rounds of .22 LR at once. He had a friend tell him it happened to him. It was a single-six like handgun, possible a Heritage make. He cocked the hammer, pulled the trigger, and all 6 cartridges went off at once. Anyone ever heard of this happening? Personnally I would have liked to have seen it!
.22 LR chain fire
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Jim Puke
Hunter
NO...I haven't.
Being that there's one firing pin and the cylinder has to rotate, I find this hard to believe in a rimfire, or even a centerfire, handgun. As noted, I'm not talking about black powder revolvers.
GA Cracker
Blackhawk
I don't see how that could physically happen but I personally would not have wanted to see it.
GunnyGene
Hawkeye
Might all go off if you threw the gun in a bonfire and they cooked off. :wink: But that's the only way I could see it happening.
WIL TERRY
Buckeye
WELL NOW.....one time I saw a Colt SAA 45 that could go full auto and dump a cylinder full before you could blink. I know how that happened, but a 22LR sixgun dumping all the rounds at once is a bit of a stretch for my vivid imagination.
bentblade said:
Yep, and they still do: http://northamericanarms.com/firearms/cb.html
I've got one, and it's a hoot. It's also pretty much useless, unless your goal is to shoot your own finger off. :shock:
I've fooled around with the NAA Companion, several ROAs, and some Italian BP revolvers. I've never had a chain fire, but it's always possible.
To have "all six" go off... that might be a stretch, unless there was only one cap in place.
Come to think of it, the Companion is a "5-shooter," anyway. 8)
SGW Gunsmith
Blackhawk
bentblade said:
YES, you're right they did, and they may still make those. It's possible to happen with a black powder gun, but a cartridge revolver? I don't think that's even within the realm of possibility. :roll:
m657
Buckeye
re: "one time I saw a Colt SAA 45 that could go full auto and dump a cylinder full before you could blink. I know how that happened".......are you going to tell us or should we speculate? I don't believe such is possible.
Unless it was Bob Munden shooting it
With a worn/sharpened hammer mounted firing pin that pierces primers, the blow back can sometimes be enough to cause the hammer to go back to full cock and make the revolver run like a raped ape.m657 said:
It is also possible to have a BP revolver go full auto when the nipple hole opens up enough to do the same as above. Very interesting to see it happen.
mjpchief
Single-Sixer
No pictures or video. It didn't happen.
m657
Buckeye
Kanook said:
Have you actually seen this happen? As unlikely as this is to happen one ONE cylinder, just what are the odds on such happening on all cylinders sequentially without a break? It would seem the mechanical failure initiating the first cylinder, then would require a separate and statistically even less likely 2/3/4/5/6 failure. I've never read about this, heard about this, had old time buddies report this, nor suspect it could/would happen in the various braces of SAA Colts I've had, including a pair from circa 1896 that I shot regularly in cowboy matches for nearly a decade.
But you have raised an interesting question.
Please elaborate.
m657
Buckeye
here's the Webley-Fosbery Automatic revolver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Va6KHE0jEFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8UmQCbZXVo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Va6KHE0jEFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8UmQCbZXVo
