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Posted: 2/22/2009 9:48:09 AM EDT
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i have shot for over 20yrs and over a conservative 10k rounds. to this day, i have never had a failure to fire w/ anything i have shot in numerous calibers.
i have been reading on here about people having f-t-f w/ certain ammo and wanted to know, what is the safety procedure for a ftf? how long do you let it sit before you eject the round, etc? since i now do most shooting at a range, i need to know the correct way to deal w/ this.... thanks, bob |
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really it all depends but if i pull the trigger and it just clicks i wait about 10 seconds and eject the round and forget about it. If i am practicing stress shooting i just extract and keep moving.
now if you here a pop and there is no boom (primer goes but the powder doesnt i would place the rifle on safe and let it sit for a minute or 2...if the powder doesnt ignite by then i think you are good to go. im no "expert" but have been running ranges in the military for a number of years and have expierenced both before and this way always works for me! |
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I have never had my AR (or any other modern weapon) fail to fire, yet. When one of my C&R rifles(namely my Mauser using 50's dated Yugo ammo) fails to fire, I wait 30 seconds, then re cock the striker and try again.
Rimfires are excluded as they all have a FTFire at some point. I think 10-20 seconds is long enough to wait. |
| i haven't experienced it yet, but just want to know since i will be at public ranges, both indoor and outdoor. using regular dpms lpks and shooting mostly xm193, prvi match and m855/m193 and possibly some wolf, but not sure about the wolf on this one since it voids the warranty w/ del-ton. |
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- Keep weapon pointed downrange for at least ten seconds in case of a hangfire.
- Drop the mag, then eject the chambered round. - Discard the bad round in a safe manner. The old Army field manual for the M-14 rifle specifically states that hangfires will occur within ten seconds - that was official Army doctrine on the point. I experienced TWO failure to fires on a Springfield Armory XD-9 that I rented at a range once. The gun was beat to hell and the clerk even told me "it had been in the shop a few times for repair" so it didn't affect my opinion of most XD-9s (which I feel are quality weapons). But still, that really got my attention when I squeezed the trigger and nothing happened. Had a good grip both times, grip safety was depressed, etc. Talk about a "WTF?" moment! Those were the only two failure to fires I have ever experienced in 35 years of shooting. I gave the weapon back to the counter clerk and told him he needed to send it back to the shop for a third time, because whatever they did the first two times didn't fix it. |
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