Loose Round Explodes in Pants Pocket

I'd guess ricochet.
It's hard to sequence his shots and the pocket round.
In slowmo it looks like the pocket moves immediately after, arguably the same time, as the muzzle flash. I had them in the same frame.
 
Sympathetic detonation?!! LOL!
In all seriousness, ricochet or some such thing is about the only plausible explanation. A loose round in your pocket is not going to simply "go off" without a reason!
 
I had a .22LR round detonate in the pocket of my hunting jacket with a 9v battery - down everywhere and two surpised teenagers who thought they were taking fire!! We did an interesting experiment later which involved a large sheet of plexiglass a cinder block and several rounds of ammo to include .22LR, .32ACP, .38 S&W and a lone .30-30 cartridge. No iPhone timers in those days so a sweep second hand had to do. It would probably get us sent to jail now, but we did learn that a 9v would set of a .32ACP much faster than it would a .30WCF.

Good times...
 
I have seen this when lead free primers are used. Static was deemed as the culprit. Also have had a lead free primer go off when sweeping up casings on the floor..Strange and very rare indeed.
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Likely a ricochet that just happened to hit the primer. Not as odd as it might seem. I posted here and on another forum some years ago that I'd dropped a live round on some pavement. The round must have fallen just right and hit a grain of sand on the pavement because it went off when it hit. I felt the casing brush past my pant leg on its way to Never Never land and the bullet was left spinning madly at my feet. Long time shooters that were there had all never seen such a thing.

A member on the other forum posted that he had been shooting his 1911 at the range when one of the ejected casings arced up and bounced back and landed on the exposed head of a round in his open cartridge case and set off one of the live rounds. In his case the casing went up and away somewhere and left the bullet behind.

So yeah, rounds can be set off outside of a gun when conditions are just right. And a large enough piece of ricochet at the right speed could certainly do such a thing.
 
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