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Old 12-31-2009, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Nicksterdemus View Post
"Ithaca M37 have been known detonate a shell cycling out of the magazine tube also..."

Slam firing or normal racking?

"Looks like a Remington M11"

You could very well be correct.
Normal racking on the M37.

I've seen it 3 times. The last was a customer at a gunshop I worked at that had a clay target 'trap' that the customers could use. The shooter was using his own M37, his own factory ammo. Normal functioning, no cowboying it.
A round exploded as it came out of the mag tube on to the carrier,,the chamber was empty as the fired shell had been thrown clear(normal function).
It detonated another round in the mag tube and blew the tube and forearm off. He lost a couple of fingers and other permanent damage to his left hand & wrist.
The other two incidents were guns I saw after the fact but it was apparent what had happened. Just tough to figure sometimes what the primer slams against coming back to fire off that shell.
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