Since I've never been involved with a hangfire, I have to wonder why he just opened and closed the bolt instead of ejecting the round.
We were always taught 30 seconds for a hang fire before moving on. This falls well within that range.
To reset the trigger and try to strike the primer again with the firing pin in case it was a light strike. If it's a hang fire and you eject it, the round will discharge laying on the ground next to you. That won't be fatal, but it may not be pleasant.
Of course the guy in the video didn't look too pleasant either. If he would have just held the rifle for a bit longer, things would have been better for him.
I had 2 golden bear 410's hang fire in a Bond Arms snake slayer I was shooting once. Repeat firing didn't do any good. I was a bit nervous with that little thing and 2 hang fires, but after 2 minutes of nothing but a firm grip, I ejected them both and got rid of all the other rusky junk. I've also had a couple of hang fires on the 5.56 back when I worked for my uncle.
That's my experience, too, except for one time.From my experiences and observations, they do happen, but it seems very rarely.
Is that a tricked out m44 ?Commie trash gun and ammo.
That's my experience, too, except for one time.
When I was 17 or 18, I loaded 100 rounds of .44 Magnum using 2400 and CCI primers in an attempt to duplicate the classic Keith load. I clearly did something very, very wrong. About 1 out of 4 of those rounds was a hangfire. They weren't long hangfires but there was a very distinct beat between the hammer falling and that M29 going boom. They all left some really crazy powder residue in the bore; it looked like little crystals of amber.
I set the ammo aside because I didn't have a bullet puller at the time. Eventually, I shot it all; it was the best flinch-catching ammo, ever. I've often thought if I could find a way to make a round that always fired one second after the hammer fall, there has to be a market for the stuff for instructors. Unfortunately, I never loaded a batch of ammo like that again so, to this day, I still don't know what I did wrong. I suspect primer contamination on the bench but, given my procedures back then, I don't see how that could have happened.
Here's a good one.
Maybe a fake..........but there is always some dumbass who will actually look down the barrel to see what went wrong.