Hang fire

[abunaitoo]

It happens from time to time with surplus ammo.
Even sometimes when working up a load.
What should you do when you have a hang fire?????
Some people just have no idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOt7crQewak

[M-Tecs]

Good video until the last one. That is fake that has been around a long time. When I was a kid the local trap club ordered a 100K of primers. It was a bad lot with lots of hangfires. Some would take close to 30 seconds before firing.

[Outpost75]

British primer mix also used by India and Pakistan is less chemically stable than US primer mix used from mid-1930s through WW2.

Very frequently experience misfires and hangfires with UK, India, Pakistan 9mm Ball Mk1, .380Revolver Mk2, .455 MkVI, and .303 MkVII and MkVII ammo, and also with FN manufacture .45 ACP and .30 Ball M2 which apparently used similar priming mix.

USGI .45 ACP Ball M1911 and cal. .30 Ball M1, Ball M2, ANM2 and APM2 from mid 1930s through 1953 transition to noncorrosive priming mix has been sure fire and reliable.

I am currently using 1942 Lend-Lease .45 ACP Ball which went to Russia and came back repacked in Soviet-type SPAM cans which is good sure-fire reliable and accurate ammo!

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[Mk42gunner]

Depends.

If I am on the range or hunting, I take normal safety precautions.

If on the other hand I am in a combat situation, the dud/ misfire/ hangfire is getting cleared as expeditiously as possible. You have to balance the risks.

Robert

[country gent]

Was at a leg match where the issue LC 30 06 ammo gave 3-4 hang fires at the start of the day in off hand. since they didnt have enough of a different lot number to reissue they cancelled the match

[Skipper]

Maybe the longest hangfire?


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gKXZMVbtK-U

[M-Tecs]

Maybe the longest hangfire?


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gKXZMVbtK-U

And he had both the water jug and the camera positioned prefect for a photo op????????? Sorry I am not buying this one.

[john.k]

Hangfires are a sure way to clear the benches around you .......a while back I had repeated hangfires with some surplus ammo that I had put away 30 years before .......no hangfires first time round,so bad storage must have happened in my safe....its is an actual safe,very temp stable inside.

[Win94ae]

I've only gotten hangfires using H414 in my 30-06, and using fake black powder in my black powder revolver. You can't tell on camera the 30-06 because it didn't hang all that long, but the revolver was quite easy to see.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlXt834oLY8

[gbrown]

Back when I first started reloading, it was for a 12 ga. shotgun, a long time ago, I had repeated hangfires from a box of shells. Don't know if it was the components or me. Could be I contaminated the powder or primer, or if the primers were bad. Firing pin would fall, then, 2-4 seconds would pass, then the round would fire. I was only 15 or 16, but well versed in range safety and hangfires. Only thing I did wrong was in reacting to it, I let up on shoulder pressure. 1st one reinforced the need not to move with a hangfire. Tried a few more during the hunt and had similar results. Got rid of that box and went home, tried some of the other primers in empty hulls, they worked fine. Dumped the powder out of the reloader tube. That box was the only time I've had a problem.

[popper]

USN 5" procedure was (non-combat situation) 1/2hr wait, then whoever isn't liked gets to toss the rnd overboard, rest of turret is 'cleared'. Don't know what they would do with the 8" bag guns. Army probably same for 105 & 155. Old tanks didn't have auto eject so that's a problem.