From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
We were told to line out and subsequently
load and make ready. I put the loaded mag in and racked
the slide. Obviously pointing down the range as one does.
The bloody thing fired as the slide finished placing
a 9mm in the chamber. No!! My finger wasn't on the trigger,
it was where it should have been and clear.
[...]
Steve replied -
"I saw a SIG-Sauer P225 go off once when it was
decocked. We could never figure out how it happened because
the gun appeared to be in perfect mechanical condition. We
couldn't get it to do it again."
I believe that the problem in both cases may have
been a hypersensitive primer.
There is a warning among Garand, M-14, and SKS
users hereabouts where I reside, to be careful of chambering
rounds for cycling purposes, more than once.
Read on.
In fact, the practice of manually cycling live ammo
through firearms with floating firing pins as the above rifles have,
is to be avoided, and - more importantly - if a round has been
used in this way, be very sure NOT to place it in a magazine
where it is not the top round.
The rules are:
Don't cycle live ammo in firearms with floating pins;
Don't place those rounds in the mag below the number
one spot;
When racking a previously cycled round, do it manually,
to prevent an slam fire;
Always, always, always, look at every round you are
going to shoot. Observe to see that the primer is seated in
properly, and that the primer doesn't have a pin 'dimple'.
If the primer has a pin dimple, it will likely produce a
'slam fire' that will seem like a full auto burst of two to three,
depending upon how many were dimpled.
ET
--
It may have been something to do with the ammo, our theory was
that the firing pin safety had got temporarily wedged upward
and that there was some debris on the face of the hammer, enough
to tap the firing pin forward enough to set off the primer.
I have a deact P225 that has a sticky firing pin safety that
doesn't always pop out when you take your finger off it.
However, on that gun the firing pin safety appeared to be
working properly, and it wasn't that dirty. It was just
bizarre.
Steve.
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