Ejecting a live round?

[Huckle2]

Mine stays chambered when I get home. When I do clear it I usually do it over the bed. Nice soft landing.

 

[themic]

I hardly ever unload - but when I do, the slide is racked firmly, using the same hand positions I always use, and the round flies a short distance and hits the floor. After I've checked the gun (look feel look feel) I can recover the round. At the range the round is sometimes lost into the no-go zone. It's just one round.

 

[Zach S]

I do it in the middle of the living room. Drop mag, rack slide, step on live round (I have a ten month old daughter, I dont wanna forget about ammo in the floor, she'll eat it), check chamber, then pick up the loose round from the carpet.

The living room has carpet, most of the rest of the house is hardwood. Ammo tends to roll away...

A shotgun with a tube mag (I think I'm using the right term).... Is it generally acceptable to leave a shotgun with the action open and a live round on top of the follower? Or is leaving it in such a condition not acceptable?

In my house, its unnacceptable. My shotgun is kept chambered at all times.

Besides, the round might fall out of the chamber when you go to pick it up. If you're grabbing your shotgun in a hurry, the round falling out could be a bad thing.

Chambered or cruiser ready is the only way to go IMO.

 

[SSN Vet]

I rarely unload my carry weapon.

that's me

When I do unload...

1. drop mag
2. rack slide slowly with left hand while right hand is cupped under the mag well.

round drops into my hand.

this is on a Taurus PT-111

 

[macadore]

So if the round detonates while racking the action to the clear the weapon, then is there any risk of brass shrapnel flying back into your face if the ejection port is facing up? (As one would do to eject a live round up into the air and catch it) or is the energy from a detonating round too minimal to do any damage at arm-length distance?

Can someone answer scoob_i_e’s question? If a round can detonate while being ejected, then it appears the only safe way is ejecting it under a rug.

I am not being sarcastic. I have owned semi-auto pistols since 1968 and have not heard of this before. I guess I have been lucky. I turn the pistol upside down and eject the round in the palm of my hand. I guess I will quit that.

 

[FieroCDSP]

It took 50+ posts for someone to suggest removing the mag and pulling the slide back slowly so it falls out of the mag well?!? There's a few guns I'm not sure this would work as well on, such as PPK clones with their tight internal spaces, but it might. Seriously, folks. Remove the mag, rack the slide. The cartridge isn't going off when it hits the floor. Then you bend over and pick it up. A little exercise never killed anyone.

 

[rmt22]

I never put my hand over ANY opening of a loaded weapon.

I think letting them hit the bed, table, or floor is the system that I use.

I think most problems there is a "finger on the trigger"

 

[buck460XVR]

Like my old man told me 50 years ago when he handed me the lever .32 carbine.

"point the barrel in a safe direction, keep your damn finger far away from the trigger area, work the action and keep an eye on the rounds so you can pick 'em up!"


geeze guys, it ain't rocket science.

 

[leathermanwave]

lock back the slide when you eject the live round that way you can eject it into your hand and not worry.

 

[230RN]

If no round comes out, don't assume the chamber was empty. Extractors do break.

Always lookie-feelie-lookie-feely afterward.

I bought an old expired vest just to have a safe direction to point at. In an apartment complex, there's no real "Safe Direction."

In my old shop, I kept a 5 gallon bucket of sand for this purpose.

My Mossberg 500, Irving, has a shell stop on the left side in the loading port which I can push to the left to pop a shell out of the mag tube. Successive pushes are required to completely clear the magazine.

If the mag is fully loaded, it may be necessary to relieve the pressure of the shell stop by pushing slightly on the bottom of the shell with thumb of the other hand. A little practice makes it easy to do.

 

[packnrat]

eject onto the bed,
it stays were it lands, no hunting around on the floor for it.


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