Ejecting / Dropping .22 LR - Safety Concern?

[mudgunner49]

That's some pretty old news to a lot of us, that there.

If you want it to happen faster, use jumper cables. Fun Fact! Fine steel wool will wreck your jeans better than live ammo will, if shorted across a battery!

If you habitually carry a spare 9v battery in your pocket with loose ammo, you may get the experience and risk, mostly, being distracted by the event, possibly a minor fire if you have a bunch of lint around too...

the battery was forgotten about, the cartridge was a misfire, stuff happens... LOL

 

[Donny Fenn1]

The only one I've ever had go off outside of the chamber of a firearm was one that detonated in my pocket because I also had a 9v battery in there (unbeknownst to me). After some impromptu experimentation my kid brother and I discovered that by laying a .22LR cartridge over the posts of the 9v it would go off in about 60 seconds or so, while a .30-30 took about 5 minutes.

Yeah - I'm basically a scientist... LOL

nice, what are your thoughts on global pandemic and vaccinations? Of course I will try this at some point this summer, maybe.

 

[Eagleye]

I am an auto mechanic by trade, and have instructed that discipline at a community College for 3 decades.
When I was working in the trade, I had a customer come to me with a tale of woe. He was driving his GMC
pickup, and when he stepped on the brake, he heard a loud bang and smelled something as well.

Wanted me to check it out. Here's what I found. A ruptured 22 LR casing on the floor, and a blackened area
around where the fuse for the brake lights should be. I could only come to one conclusion....someone had stuck
a loaded 22 LR round in place of the barrel-type fuse. Circuit had an intermittent short at the bulkhead, so it heated
that round up fairly quickly. "Bang"!!! I questioned him about it, but he had just bought the truck, so knew nothing
about that stupidity. Got a good laugh out of the whole thing.Dave.

To the OP. Don't worry about dropping rounds on the concrete, I've been shooting 22 for 65+ years and never saw
one go off when dropped.

 

[CaptainDC]

Crazy story Eagleeye, thanks!