Red October
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First, I would probably not believe this had I not seen it in person.
I was shooting with a friend who had recently purchased a Remington 1911. We were taking turns with it; each one of us would shoot a magazine, and once it locked back, we would take the pistol over to the bench, drop the mag out, and reload for the next guy. The owner fired the last battery out of the pistol, it locked back and he sat it on the bench. We chatted for a bit, and then we he picked the weapon up to store it, he happened to look in the chamber and there was a live round in the chamber. The slide had locked back on his last shot. No round was manually inserted, yet one had somehow gotten into the chamber after the last shot was fired.
No one else handled this weapon; only the two of us.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
Any ideas how this could happen?
The only thing that comes to mind (which seems really unlikely) is that when the next-to-last round in the mag was fired, the slide locked back prematurely, and somehow the recoil freed the final round from the magazine, and it made it into the chamber. Unlikely, I know, but I can't come up with anything else.
Thoughts?
I was shooting with a friend who had recently purchased a Remington 1911. We were taking turns with it; each one of us would shoot a magazine, and once it locked back, we would take the pistol over to the bench, drop the mag out, and reload for the next guy. The owner fired the last battery out of the pistol, it locked back and he sat it on the bench. We chatted for a bit, and then we he picked the weapon up to store it, he happened to look in the chamber and there was a live round in the chamber. The slide had locked back on his last shot. No round was manually inserted, yet one had somehow gotten into the chamber after the last shot was fired.
No one else handled this weapon; only the two of us.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
Any ideas how this could happen?
The only thing that comes to mind (which seems really unlikely) is that when the next-to-last round in the mag was fired, the slide locked back prematurely, and somehow the recoil freed the final round from the magazine, and it made it into the chamber. Unlikely, I know, but I can't come up with anything else.
Thoughts?