22 revolver firing 2 shots at once, Help!

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Hi there,
I have a old h&r 22 9 shot revolver, and it's recently fired two shots with one pull of the trigger. The second bullets case had no marks on it what do ever, and the only thing I can think of is maybe the lock up is wobbly or sloppy and when it fired it pinched the shell and the frame?
It was a brand new brick of federal, there were two holes in the target and I don't want it to turn into a wall hanger but I have no idea what to do, any advice?
 
If 2 rounds fired at the same time, one would go down the barrel as intended
but the other would not. IF a second fired at the same time, it fired away from
the barrel and still hit the target ???
Sorry but it sounds too strange . But things do happen . If you are sure
that 2 rounds fired at the same time it is time to make that gun a wall hanger as it is unsafe.
 
I have a 922 also (D), I haven't had the chance to fire it yet tho.... Still I doubt it was the gun. There is the safety ridge around the primer end of the cylinder to prevent the primers from being struck from any flat surface. Also with no marks on the other rounds.
I am leaning toward the ammo? Maybe one went off prematurely, or your fired bullet broke to give you 2 holes in the target?
You can check how sloppy the lock up is... If it's decent, I'd take it shooting some more and see if it happens again.
As mentioned above, with out the barrel, I highly doubt the bullet would make it to the target? It would be like having a 1/2 inch barrel on your gun (the remainder of the cylinder)
 
I can't imagine that the round would fire and not have some sort of dent in the casing rim. It's hard enough to get rimfire rounds to light off when the gun does strike correctly.

Just in case though swing out or remove the cylinder, depending on the model, and look over the recoil shield for any sort of raised edge that could possibly act as a secondary firing pin.

It's simply not possible for the cylinder to just slap back and fire a round. The indexing star sits up and runs against the frame which makes what you're suggesting impossible. So unless a bit of sand or other grit or some sort of part is sticking out then it can't do what you are suggesting.

Could your second hole have been bounce back from the back stop? Or did both holes have the grey "grease ring" around the edges? If one of the other rounds did fire it would not be through the barrel. It would also need to be one of the chambers at the 3 or 9 oclock positioning areas since the others are occluded by the frame and all you'd get would be a lot of side spatter.

If it's only done this the one time it could be that you simply found a freak sensitive round and it may never happen again.

Hell, just a couple of weeks ago I had a rimfire casing split right at the rim and shower my hand with a spray of gases. It was just a surprise since it had to pass through the guts of the rifle. But oddball things like this can happen.
 
Weird.
If the shell on either side of the one lined up with the bore ignited it would impact the side of the barrel.
There are 4 chambers out of 10 that could theoretically fire and clear the gun but still.... weird.

Which chamber was it in relation to the chamber that was in line with the bore?

Maybe you had a bad cartridge and the bullet fell out on it's own and you didn't notice it?
Did you hear two shots?
 
Not in a million years. There would be marks on a rim fire cartridge that supposedly fired. And there's nothing to hit the rim. Plus there'd be leading and burn marks on the outside of the revolver and your hand would be cut from flying bits of bullet and burned by the flash. Somebody was messing with you.
 
Could this be a case of pulling the trigger twice like happens when people who are not used to shooting, fire guns with very heavy recoil? Just a thought.

Graydog
 
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graydog said:
Could this be a case of pulling the trigger twice like happens when people who are not used to shooting, fire guns with very heavy recoil? Just a thought.

Graydog
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In those cases the folks don't consciously pull the trigger. Instead the gun jumps in their hand enough that through distortion in the hand which spring back and pivoting in their hands which also spring back it resets and pulls the trigger. Basically the gun jumps up and back and then gets pushed forward against the trigger finger of the shooter when their hands spring back from the recoil impact.

But in this case he's shooting a .22LR gun that has a hellaciusly heavy DA trigger pull. So no, it's just not going to happen the same way.
 
Revolver going full auto? Lets quickly ban them before someone gets hurt lol

I've heard of a revolver round 'cook off' in heavy magnum rounds where cylinger gets so hot one the round next to the fired one ignites on it's own but personally find it hard to see happening esp in a .22! if the round next to fired one ignited it would hit the frame and get mangled never making to the target.


I don't see how it would be possible to happen what you're describing. Something is off!
 
I am not seeing how this could happen.

.22lr is notorious for being unreliable because of the amount of force they typically take to go off, and most revolvers have such a heavy DA trigger pull, and mainspring for the same reason.

I don't see a round going off from the recoil of another .22lr.
 
1000yards said:
Hi there,
I have a old h&r 22 9 shot revolver, and it's recently fired two shots with one pull of the trigger. The second bullets case had no marks on it what do ever, and the only thing I can think of is maybe the lock up is wobbly or sloppy and when it fired it pinched the shell and the frame?
It was a brand new brick of federal, there were two holes in the target and I don't want it to turn into a wall hanger but I have no idea what to do, any advice?
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Please post a video.
 
Brick the revolver or brick yourself. Something in this equation seriously doesn't add up.

If a round went off in a cylinder that was not aligned with the barrel, how the F did it hit anything but dirt. @lus rhe risk to your hands if it is going off?

This really shouldn't be possible unless you are missing/ exagerating some details.
 
Ill get some pics asap, not sure about the video as right now I dont want to risk firing it til I get this figured out.

There was a chunk taken off the wall, and it had fired 90 rounds before this happened just fine,
it is possible there was one faulty round, or that the round in the chamber split making the 2 holes,
but Ill be sure to get pics of the shells up as soon as I can,
 
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