If it wasn't a video I would not think it possible
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Ejected casing fires off round in box
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squirrelnest
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I've never seen that before....that could be dangerous!
Don't know when the first time was, but it was more than 55 years ago. Happened to me in the late sixties with .45ACP in an open yellow Flambeau cartridge box. Still have the box. It blew out a partition and the case took off (I seem to recall that I recovered it, but it WAS a long time ago), while the bullet just sat there.
I don't leave cartridge boxes open these days.
I don't leave cartridge boxes open these days.
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A one in a million shot - never saw that happen before.
Craziest thing I've heard of that fits in to this was a guy who posted on one of the gun forums that he and he friend were both at an outdoor range standing next to each other shooting .45cal 1911 pistols and he ended up with a stovepipe jam.
He was the shooter on the right and his pistol stopped with a piece of brass sticking out of the ejection port -- but the case was Blazer aluminum, which is what his buddy was shooting... he was shooting regular brass cased ammo.
That's crazy -- the trajectory being perfect is a long shot but the TIMING on this happening along with the perfect trajectory?
Would be most excellent to have that one on video.
He was the shooter on the right and his pistol stopped with a piece of brass sticking out of the ejection port -- but the case was Blazer aluminum, which is what his buddy was shooting... he was shooting regular brass cased ammo.
That's crazy -- the trajectory being perfect is a long shot but the TIMING on this happening along with the perfect trajectory?
Would be most excellent to have that one on video.
I doubt that it was a bullet; more likely a cartridge case. I'm quite sure that it was in my instance.
In the recent instance, one can clearly see something coming down from above at the same time that the gun is pointed downrange. That is a further hint that the bullet went pretty much where it was intended to go.
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So you're telling me there's a chance...
That exact thing happened to a friend teaching a CCL class when shooting for qualification. Ejected round set off a round on the table in front of the shooter. They no longer allow any live rounds near the shooting line.
I actually witnessed such an occurance during a revolver qualification many years back. The person next to me ejected the fired cases and one or more fell on a styrofoam tray of .38 special cartridges at his feet. One of the cartridges in the tray detonated and blew the tray apart with a few of the non-exploded cartridges receiving some pretty good dents.
Neededless to say it was quite the show stopper. Fortunately, there were no injuries. I still have one of the dented cartridges as a souvenir.
Neededless to say it was quite the show stopper. Fortunately, there were no injuries. I still have one of the dented cartridges as a souvenir.
Sometime in the 1990's I was at an in-service training class at a police academy. I did not see this happen, but I was in the building. Recruit classes were training on the range. A recruit tossed a live round back into the barrel full of live training rounds. One of the rounds detonated sending cartridge brass shrapnel into the recruits groin. He was taken by ambulance to a local ER for treatment, and subsequently released. Not seriously injured, but he acquired the unfortunate nickname of "copperhead".
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Years ago I was at a USPSA match watching a guy on the squad shoot. He was shooting Open with a .38 Super 1911 type pistol. He was moving slower than he should've been and I watched an ejected cartridge case bounce off a plywood barricade and come to rest horizontally across his cocked hammer and against the rear of the slide. It was balanced there perfectly and when he pulled the trigger the hammer moved forward and flicked the case off the gun. The hammer expended most of its momentum moving the case out of the way and the round in the chamber did not fire. The shooter quickly chambered another round and kept shooting, probably thinking he had a bad round in the chamber. A shooter standing next to me had also seen this and commented on the odds of it ever happening again. I have to wonder if an oddity like this ever got anybody killed out on the street.
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It's funny, but I have always closed up my ammo boxes before shooting. Guess that apparent paranoia was justified.
On two separate occasions, at local (SoCal) outdoor ranges, I have seen two separate shooters drop plastic bags of re-manufactured range ammo onto the ground. Both times, the rim of a round in the bag connected with the primer of another round in the bag, detonating that round.
No damage done, though there were shaken up shooters. One bag was a 250rd bag of .38 Spl and the other was a 50rd bag of, I believe, 9mm ammo.
Never seen it with empty brass, however.
No damage done, though there were shaken up shooters. One bag was a 250rd bag of .38 Spl and the other was a 50rd bag of, I believe, 9mm ammo.
Never seen it with empty brass, however.
I taught at a couple of different LE academies for right at 40 years.
One of our ranges had 3/4 minus crushed rock on it. We had a couple of different occasions were a live round was ejected on the ground and discharged on impact. Incidents like this aren't really too dangerous. When a cartridge discharges outside of the chamber, the projectile doesn't go as far as the case does. ( It's lighter than the bullet)There may be some brass frags if the case ruptures but they usually don't go very far. Once the primer separates the bullet from the case, almost none of the powder burns. Modern propellants don't burn very well when not under pressure. Still scares the S---t out of you.
The first time it happened I was ready to kick some poor recruit out of the program for having a UD. Fortunately one of the other instructors was standing right next to him and saw it happen.
One of our ranges had 3/4 minus crushed rock on it. We had a couple of different occasions were a live round was ejected on the ground and discharged on impact. Incidents like this aren't really too dangerous. When a cartridge discharges outside of the chamber, the projectile doesn't go as far as the case does. ( It's lighter than the bullet)There may be some brass frags if the case ruptures but they usually don't go very far. Once the primer separates the bullet from the case, almost none of the powder burns. Modern propellants don't burn very well when not under pressure. Still scares the S---t out of you.
The first time it happened I was ready to kick some poor recruit out of the program for having a UD. Fortunately one of the other instructors was standing right next to him and saw it happen.
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