07-17-2020, 01:15 AM
Just lucky I guess but I've never had a slam fire with any of my ARs, M1A & Garand. However, I have seen other shooters have slam fires in service rifle matches & in 3 gun competitions.
I did have an interesting experience with a SKS. I'd just bought the rifle & went straight to the range. I loaded 2 rounds into it & pulled the trigger. BANG, BANG! It fired both rounds! I repeated the process... same results! That was enough for me. I didn't know anything about how the firing mechanism of a SKS worked so I took the rifle back to the gun shop where I bought it & explained what happened. The shop gunsmith took it back to his bullet trap & loaded 2 rounds into the rifle. It fired both rounds just like it did for me. What he figured out: There is a lever in the trigger mechanism that allows the sear to disconnect from the trigger after a round is fired. This lever on my rifle was about 1/8" longer than the one on a different SKS. This too-long lever didn't allow the sear to disconnect & caused the hammer to follow the bolt after each cycle. So, in a sense, the second round, or any subsequent rounds, would be slam fires. While a full-auto SKS might sound like fun, it was impractical. Fortunately, the gunsmith had a spare trigger group on hand & let me have it.
I did have an interesting experience with a SKS. I'd just bought the rifle & went straight to the range. I loaded 2 rounds into it & pulled the trigger. BANG, BANG! It fired both rounds! I repeated the process... same results! That was enough for me. I didn't know anything about how the firing mechanism of a SKS worked so I took the rifle back to the gun shop where I bought it & explained what happened. The shop gunsmith took it back to his bullet trap & loaded 2 rounds into the rifle. It fired both rounds just like it did for me. What he figured out: There is a lever in the trigger mechanism that allows the sear to disconnect from the trigger after a round is fired. This lever on my rifle was about 1/8" longer than the one on a different SKS. This too-long lever didn't allow the sear to disconnect & caused the hammer to follow the bolt after each cycle. So, in a sense, the second round, or any subsequent rounds, would be slam fires. While a full-auto SKS might sound like fun, it was impractical. Fortunately, the gunsmith had a spare trigger group on hand & let me have it.
I refuse to be victimized by notions of virtuous behavior.