Has anyone ever had a slow primer?

[mdsteele]

Never had one. It's always in the back of my mind when I get a click instead a boom though.

 

[fallingblock]

I've had a few hangfires over the years...

Mostly with old or poorly stored rimfire ammo.

As a poor student, I couldn't pass up FA 1936 ammo at $2.00 per box.

That was in 1973, and nearly every round had a second or so delay before firing.

It does help with learning steady 'follow-through', though.

 

[Firefighter]

yes

2 second delayed shot...very weird..FN Browning High Power and Winchester whitebox 9mm

 

[Greybeard]

Back in summer of '95 I observed a semi-spooky incident during CHL Instructor qualification in Austin. I was in the awaiting relay preloading magazines for my partner, who was one of of 30 shooters on the line. Shooter next to us had a misfire with .40 and promptly continued with slap-rack-bang. The ejected cartridge had not been on DPS's immaculately-kept bermuda grass for more than 3 seconds when a trooper acting as line officer promptly picked it up and dropped the round into his front pants pocket. I'm happy to report that one remained only a misfire.

 

[P95Carry]

Hangfires with real old Milsurp .303 Brit not too uncommon. I still have some real old (C 1945) stuff .. corrosive of course .... and cordite ...... that stuff can, every so often give a round that feels like a flinter

Pull trigger .......... click ........ pause ...... bang!!!! They always seem to go off but the delay feels quite strange... probably tho in this case only in the order of .. what?? say - 100 to 200 msecs.

Not really related but . had one round of 7.62 x 54R where it ''didn't go'' and after ejection the primer FELL OUT!!