Count to 10 after missfire

[loiblb]

https://youtu.be/wrkUqOV4kZA

 

[BearBiologist]

Ouch!!

 

[Dave P.]

Bet he doesn't do that again!

 

[blume357]

damn, I would have never expected that long a delay.... but you know it was probably the round cooking off from the heat of the barrel.

 

[Fox Mike]

I had a PFC in my Platoon lose his eye doing exactly what you saw on the video. The primer blew out and into his eye. Last time I saw him was when I visited him at Walter Reed. He was medically disabled and retired as a PFC.

 

[woodsy]

As a teen (60 years ago) I was taught to wait 30 seconds.

 

[vito]

I was also taught to wait 30 seconds, and I passed that advice on to every person that I helped start into shooting. But I have never had a round cook off or experienced any time of firing due to a delayed primer burn, or anything else. But I still wait, just in case. I did once have a squib, which was an odd experience. But the sound and feel of that was strange enough that I was not foolish enough to fire another round until after I had cleared out the barrel.

 

[mrmag00]

Was always told to wait15 seconds with the weapon pointed down range.

 

[muzzleloader]

Started life with muzzleloaders, so learned not to be in too much of a hurry to lose a finger or eye. Hope that troop is ok.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

My first boss at the trap and skeet range told us to count to 10, at the same pace many of us worked!

I had a batch of milsurp .303 British ammo quite some time ago. They weren't that old (25+ yrs?) but must have sat on a loading dock in the Pakistani heat a bit too long. Some were so bad they pushed the 30 second rule. Tore all of 'em I hadn't tried to shoot down for the bullets. And didn't buy any more with a POF headstamp.

Rick C

 

[gramps]

I don’t understand what happened in the video. He had a misfire, he waited longer than 30 seconds, opened it up, EJECTED the cartridge, and then a boom from the gun! What happened?
gramps

 

[blume357]

I don't think he ejected the cartridge... will have to go back and look... he did pull the bolt back but I guess the cartridge did not eject and that might have been why it did not fire... Soldier did have Sun Glasses on and that might have been a good thing.