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Posted: 9/7/2009 5:27:53 PM EDT
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Guys
So I loaded some .223 with 24 grains of W-748, 69 Sierra Matchkings, and PMC primers. My AR is at the shop so I took out a H & R break action I just bought and tried to get it sighted in. Needless to say it was one of those days on the range you would like to forget. I started off with some Hornandy factory ammo to get it on paper. After I got it on paper, I tried my reloads and it seemed like there was a slight pause between the time the hammer fell and the shot fired. I am new to reloading so I try to pay very close attention to anything that may be "off" when I am shooting my reloads After loading the rounds I ran them into a Lee Factory Crimp die. I was wondering if it is possible to crimp the rounds too tight to cause this pause. Or am I just imagining things and there was no pause. Granted this was a new rifle and I am not used to shooting it. Something just sounded different between the factory ammo and my reloads. Any thoughts??? Thanks everyone. Henry |
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Get someone else to observe while you shoot these loads again.
Also load a few rounds with a different primer to determine whether the loads act different. I'll bet on perception, but you never know. The only hang fire I've ever had with a muzzle loader went well over a minute and the gun fired just about the time I got bored with waiting. That won't ever happen again. I was surprised by both events, the hang fire and the long delay. The cause was a change in patch lube from spit to a commercial product. 
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| get yer reloads and the factory ammo....mix them all together, grab a few, preferebly without looking and start loading a mag. Start shooting until you think it was delayed, then examine which round it was....this should prove if it is just in your head or actually happening. |
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You've got some good advice regarding testing for hangfire's already.
I will say, hang-fires really can happen. Back in the early 90's I recieved about 2k casings from a friend of a friend. Most of it was de-primed, but around 200 of them still had unfired primers in them. Woohoo!! They were just primers - what could go wrong? ..... So I loaded them up. And almost every one of them had a 2 second hangfire! I always assumed it was some kind of oil or whatever that got in there. But the post above that it's tumbling media is an interesting one - hadn't thought of that! I will say one thing, they were great practice rounds for follow-through! [Shudder], today I'd probably just pull them all. I guess my point on that is I never experienced a short duration hang fire. In my limited experience, they were all at least a second or so. |
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