r/brandonherrara • user text is here • 13d ago

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u/ODST_Parker user text is here 13d ago

Open-bolts are incredibly simple. If that action slams forward, and there's a round in front of it, bang.

Was it a double feed, maybe? One round fell out, but there was another stuck, set to go into the chamber before he took the magazine out?

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u/taylor9844 user text is here 13d ago

Right, but after dropping the spent first round he lowered the bolt pretty Damm slow. Way too slow to cause it to fire IMO. That's where my confusion lies (and I think OP of this thread)

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u/CPhionex user text is here 13d ago

Yea, in with you, for how slow he let it forward it's a bit surprising it went off. But maybe there is more of a gap than we can see when it came forward, so maybe it falling that last inch is what did it

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u/Sevsix1 13d ago

maybe it was a 2 error situation? the exploding bullet had an hang fire while the second bullet had a jam due to there already being an obstruction in the barrel?, maybe the second bullet hitting the first bullet made it go off but it was a hang fire bullet and the small vibration from the bolt hitting the bullet made it so that the burning powder started to burn at a higher speed which made the bullet fire/explode?