Unintentional Bump fire today yikes!

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I had this happen today whilst firing a friend's M-305, talk about a kodak moment! I was like, WTF? I have not much experience with this type of rifle last having shot high power rifle quite a while ago. Talk about getting your attention. . . any ideas what the rate of fire is when that happens, this one had a nice trigger. Regards Tony.

PS: don't want this locked out so no illegal stuff please, just wanted to post what happened to me today that I thought was somewhat noteworthy.
 
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I was shooting a M1A supermatch from a benchrest. I was only lightly gripping the rifle. I had a "double tap" due to the rifle kicking back and coming forward again which ran the trigger into my finger again.

Once I gripped it tightly the problem went away.
 
Teh safety nazis will start whinning but....

ROF is dependant totally on how well you actually bumpfire, the amount of pressure vs recoil will affect how fast it will go. But thats if your INTENTIONALLY bumpfiring. Im assuming you had a typical hold to the shoulder when this happen so it would be totally different.

Seen 5 rounds sound like an mg42 zipper, to 5 rnds go bapbapbap like an m3 greasegun.
 
well frig, I was firing a slow fire match so I thought I would (normally?) load a 5 round magazine, the first round went off okay, but when I went to fire the second shot (prone position), before I knew it the last 4 were gone with a brap type of noise. By the way there is no recoil to speak of on the M-305's I find. I don't know where the rounds went because they were not marked, probably went to the four winds it was at 500 yards, fwiw I was using what I thought was South African stuff, headstamp said R1M1 or something to that effect. Pretty nice gun though, might get one (if I can find one). Regards Tony.
 
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