Ejected Shell Ignites Live Round

40+ years of shooting and have never seen ir heard of that happening

Here is a video

I’ve only seen this actually happen on Colion Noirs link. To hear that it has happened multiple times in one range is an eye opener

"Ejected brass is evil" I`ll agree with that.LOL

Wife had made a table center piece for a grooms supper. Was a hunting theme. Gave her some 16 ga shotshells to hot glue to it. While back we were cleaning out the basement and she was tossing it out, put it in a trash bag and pitched it across the room. Something must have hit a primer when it hit the floor firing a shell. Scared the crap out of her but all the shot was contained in the trash bag.

I've been shooting a case of crappy S&B 115gr with unusually hard primers - I have issues getting them to go off constantly with a firing pin. I'd be shocked and amazed if a spent casing could do it. This is an eye opener.

Wow! Never even considered that could happen.

Time to buy a lotto ticket!

Yeahhhhh, internet videos should always be believed……..
‘Sounds like BS to me.

Why i cringed the time i seen somebody push the pointy 30-30 rounds into the tube on their lever gun.. because they said they couldnt find any of the round nose ones.. Worked out ok.. but i still moved a couple lanes down.

While I suppose anything CAN happen, I will only say that after more than 4 decades of shooting and 15 years of running a range, I have never seen that happen. I'm skeptical to say the least.

philk said:

"Ejected brass is evil" I`ll agree with that.LOL

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I’ll say that the spent .45acp casing from my SA RO Elite Champion that hit me dead center of my forehead had me 🤬🤬🤬 🤣🤣

Oh great, more rules coming to a local range near you.

Warcamp178 said:

I’ll say that the spent .45acp casing from my SA RO Elite Champion that hit me dead center of my forehead had me 🤬🤬🤬 🤣🤣

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After shooting my favorite LW Commander and Stop for lunch on the way back from the range and wondering why people look at you funny when you have round circles on your forehead. LoL

philk said:

After shooting my favorite LW Commander and Stop for lunch on the way back from the range and wondering why people look at you funny when you have round circles on your forehead. LoL

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Or down the front of your tank top.. Little burn marks where you...really dont want them.. plus reaching in there to get it out makes u look crazy..

Lisa93 said:

Or down the front of your tank top.. Little burn marks where you...really dont want them.. plus reaching in there to get it out makes u look crazy..

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Bet that made you jump. Got one down the back of my shirt last time. Wow bet that was funny to watch.😂 I guess I really need to fix that gun someday but it just works to darn good otherwise.

I have heard reliably of dropped rounds hitting a rock and firing.
Alarming but not very destructive.
I was there when a guy held his hand over the ejection port and the round hit the ejector and fired. That chewed up his hand a bit, he was out of the match.


The local rental range advises women against scoop necks and sandals.
I have seen a woman friend get caught twice, the second time with a round necked T shirt, not much gap, but a hot case found it. Both times, there was an energetic dance, but she kept the gun pointed downrange. Not everybody does.

I once had a hot case from the next spot over land on my back while shooting prone. That smarted even through a shirt.
I also had a hot case from an AR to my left hang between my glasses' temple and my head, that was much worse.

^ At a local range, had a lady wearing a scoop neck shirt end up doing the hot brass dance when one landed amidships. She did not keep the muzzle downrange and ended up touching one off into the leg of the guy with her. Chaos ensued, and it prompted immediate changes to the dress code requirements.