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How infrequent are these? I've never had one, but my friend had his .22 LR cookoff on Sunday while at the range. Luckily he had it pointed downrange.
Do many of you experience this?
Do many of you experience this?
When I was in the army cook off's were very common in the m-60's
Hmm... I never considered mechanically what was happening when an M60 went runaway on me. But it damn sure did. You or your A gunner has to reach up and break the belt and just let it run off four or five rounds.
Every time it happened, the barrel was nearly glowing white.
Hangfires are a documented phenomena.
They do happen.
They happen very, very infrequently.
When they do happen, it is almost always a case of either very old, unstable ammunition stored exposed to the elements, or ammunition that had been contaminated by soaking in some liquid.
In my shooting career, I haver personally discharged a quarter million rounds of ammunition, some store bought, some reloaded, and I have never encountered a hangfire. I have witnessed easily 100 times that being discharged, without ever seeing a hangfire.
And yet, they do happen.