re: Bullet ejected from gun, detonates at the shooters feet

Fuggin re-loads.

I disagree with Grok. I think it hit the primer just perfectly to set the round off.


The gun doesn’t look hot at this point.

That's why you don't eject onto rock or concrete

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Its what I thought too. But if you watch closely at the beginning, he looks like he takes the mag out and puts it in his mag holster on his right hip. (Suggesting he just emptied it at the target). Then he looks to check clear and the round rejects. So its either the cook off theory that Grok posed. Or, like another poster said, a bad/delayed primer.

I thought it just hit perfect when I saw it a couple days ago, but I just cannot see that having enough force to set the primer off.

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I’ve had a lot hotter guns and not have a round cook off on its own. It doesn’t look like he’s dealing with a bad primer because when he ejects the shell he doesn’t look at it. Usually with a hard/unfired round I and everyone I know visually inspect it to see if it’s a film strike from the firing pin.

Who knows for sure, but I’m sticking with it hitting the ground perfectly. It would take a perfect contact to happen because you’re right on the force issue, but to “cook off” is an extreme heat. Like in a fire heat.

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Without being shot through a barrel, it's basically a firecracker.

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The lighter of the 2 parts, would fly away at a damaging, possibly fatal, speed

In this case, I imagine the casing is lighter than the round

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So it was chambered, then it popped out when he pulled the slide back?

I don’t own a gun so didn’t know that could even happen…let alone said round going off by hitting the ground. Wild and I’m glad nobody was hurt.

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LOL. You're going to be set upon like a bloody fox by hounds.

Didn’t Mythbusters do an episode on this? Cooking off rounds, while dangerous, is not even remotely close to firing one thru a barrel.

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That round hit gravel perfect on the primer and went off.

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Sounds correct -

Not my proudest moment, but as a youth, would take the shot out of a shell, tape a marble to the end, and throw it to make it go off.

When I was a teenager, I was in the passenger seat and threw a .22 round out the window and hit a sign and it went off. I guess it hit the sign perfectly