Do .22 rimfire ever hangfire?

10x said:
Just make sure the BBQ is cold when you place the cartridges in and the lid is closed before you light it. It is very likely the cardboard box will catch fire and burn before the bullets detonate.
I would also have some serious concerns about lead from the bullets in your BBQ. Lead and food don't mix well in the human body.
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Not my bbq, no sir. Neighbor's :evil:
 
Grizzlypeg said:
Not my bbq, no sir. Neighbor's :evil:
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And that reminds me of way back in 1969 at U of A residence some student from Hong Kong would cook noodles on a hotplate in the communal kitchen for a late night snack. They didn't clean up the hotplate or their mess after either. One of the jokers living there sprinkled a bit of black powder under the burner of the hotplate. Needless to say there was a flash and a puff of smoke when the powder ignited. The foreign students stayed out of the kitchen for a couple of weeks and it stayed clean.
 
hi I'm new at Canadian gunnutz where I can find the page that sale guns and rifles .I'm loking for a .22 lever action .Thanx
 
Here ya go Alba
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=53

37 yrs of rimfire shooting and zero hangfires ...lots of duds that I rechambered and fired.
Wanna see what a hangfire is , try some Pakistani .303brit.

Overexposure of lead can cause some serious health issues , but it wasn't that long ago that water mains coming into homes were lead pipes.
Fumes are the greatest culprit , or getting shot...whichever situation your into the most . ;)
 
I have had hangfires while adjusting theheight of the TI25. I wait one minute,then eject it onto the gound.Pick them up when im done. ALWAYS WAIT,if it goes click, then no bang.
 
Over the years I have had 2 Hang fires with rimfire ammo.

One was a CCI Stinger. Was shooting gophers with my 10/22 and had a dud. I always just ejected them, them when the mag went empty tried them again. More often than not hey shot like they were supposed to.

I was actually suprised how much force came out of that little round. Granted it was beside my foot when it blew up...

The other was with some old winchester/western .22WMR I inherited. That made a slightly bigger bang than the Stinger, and made a hole in the ground 1" around it and probably 1/2" deep...

I have had more honest hang fires in a centerfire rifle though. But when I get a dud in a centerfire, I wait 2 minutes before opening the bolt. I fugure that is enough time. With the centerfires the gun has gone bang within 5 seconds of pulling the trigger though...
 
22lr said:
22 round going off outside the barrel is fairly safe, neither bullet nor case carry enough energy to penetrate anything. Sure you can get cuts or even loose your eye if you are stupid enough to examine dud up close. Ejected on the ground it will do nothing more than noise.
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They did this on mythbusters, ammo, when outside of a gun is not overly dangerous, sometimes the casing can cause some minor injuries, but nothing to serious if below the neck.

It makes sense too, since modern day ammo obiturates ? (expands) against the breech of the firearm creating the velocity through the barrel.
 
SSJChar said:
if you get a ftf, wait like 60 seconds and eject the case, whats a good thing to do with it to insure you don't get hurt from a possible hangfire? i'm abit afraid of just leaving the ejected case around only to have it go off next to me. maybe get a wooden box to eject them into? sure its not common, but neither is getting hit by a bus, but i dont want to take that chance.
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always wait at least 30 seconds before ejecting a hangfire round....
 
Mythbusters used a .22lr as a fuse in an old truck. It showed that the bullet going of couldn't severely hurt you. But it would leave a nice bruis, and cuts and burns. Ejecting them into a box of some sort, made of wood, or maybe metal, of course it all depends on thickness, but anyways it would most likely stop the caseing and slug from hitting you, if you were lucky enough to have it hangfire.
 
A long time ago, with CIL ammo, duds, and hangfires did occur. At that time I shot rimfire target at the local armories. I experienced I think two hangfires in the time I was shooting there, maybe ten years, all of them CIL, and never with a Winchester T22, the only other rimfire round the range sold.
We actually had an entire box of CIL duds. No primer paint in them.
If I remember right, the range got a free case of ammo out of that.
The hangfires were handled as per the range safety rules, and discharged late still in the chamber. They were not long hangfires, just a couple of seconds.
 
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