Thread: Hang fires

Originally Posted by Tahr

John, had you adjusted the rifles trigger at all?:

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....82/index2.html

People are using "hang fire" with different definitions. The guy in that thread seems to mean he presses the trigger and then the striker does not fall for a moment. In other words the rifle is not functioning correctly.

Others are calling a cartridge misfire a "hang fire." (Fire hanging indefinately?)

I mean it as in the primer is struck by the firing pin properly, but the primer doesnt go off for a split second. (Snick of a firing pin fall...and then Bang!)


The rifles function correctly but the primer specifically not going off - the powder burns fine when the primer goes off. It is not the case that the primer is going off when it should - and then the powder is not burning properly.


(However I have experienced exactly this with different ammo when the powder was contaminated with too runny lube. The primer would go off - crack! and then the wierdest sound...a whooshing noise combined with the sound of something being pushed up a pipe with a long ascending squeaky note and then puff! some ejecta from the muzzle and the bullet would pop off and land ten feet away on the ground. Like a Warner Bros cartoon. Wierdest thing in the world with a firearm. That sound was literally the bullet being pushed up the bore for two or three long seconds. I did this three times before I stopped, being a person who is unable to learn from his first mistake.)

On a positive note - I found I dont flinch!