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Old 12-31-2009, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Vegetaman View Post
For those of us that have had rifles and shotguns and pistols go "pop... boom", it is very unsettling. Though I am not sure I've ever noticed that the shot seemed to have more kick or anything (though you're usually tense as all hell when it goes off, for sure).
You are certainly right there! Very unsettling.

And if it didn't "detonate", you wouldn't notice any difference in recoil, etc.

Just read a blurb by "someone supposedly knowledgable" about such things, that it may not be that "the powder has spread out", but that the primer "piled it up" at the base of the bullet, before full ignition, being the cause of detonations.

"Flame fronts", "pressure waves", "reflections", some going one direction and meeting another going in the opposite direction, etc, etc.

I think we just might have a lot more to learn about exactly how such things can happen. (Or not happen). Very possibly a number of causes, and what keeps such from happening with some or most, "hang fires".

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