Firearm Malfunction Quiz

[MechAg94]

http://www.outdoorhub.com/stories/2015/11/11/video-quiz-can-identify-10-gun-malfunctions/

This was interesting.  Guess the malfunction based on the video.  Some of the videos are impressive. 

I only got 6.  Some of the videos it is hard to see what is happening.  I thought #9 was just wrong, but maybe others call that something else. 

[lee n. field]

"Failure to everything"

 

8/10.  Missed 4 and 7.

[Monkeyleg]

7. On the first one I couldn't see if the stovepipes were vertical or horizontal. On the other two, who knows?

[Perd Hapley]

"Failure to everything"? I thought that malfunction was called "shooting a .22 semi-auto."

[BlueStarLizzard]

7 out of 10.

The second video was hard to see. I did like the "failure to everything." *chuckles*

[Perd Hapley]

The videos are in a different order when I open the page again, so y'all may want to identify which videos you're talking about.

[BlueStarLizzard]

The videos are in a different order when I open the page again, so y'all may want to identify which videos you're talking about.

The AR in the van. I didn't see the smoke and such the first time. I was really confused by it the first time around and just guessed.

[lee n. field]

The AR in the van. I didn't see the smoke and such the first time. I was really confused by it the first time around and just guessed.

I guessed on that too.  I had a hard time figuring it.  Something blows the magazine out.  He replaces it, cycles a round into the chamber and tries to fire.  Nothing fires.   I guessed (wrong) on that one.

[Monkeyleg]

With the AR in the van, you hear a round hitting the floor every time he cycles the bolt, so it's chambering and extracting rounds.

[Regolith]

The AR in the van. I didn't see the smoke and such the first time. I was really confused by it the first time around and just guessed.

I guessed too soon on that one. Didn't watch the whole video.

I also missed the hangfire one, because the video was started at a bad spot and I missed the hammer drop.

[Fly320s]

8/10.

Missed van and girl shooting the pistol.  I think both of their answers are wrong.

[Fly320s]

"Failure to everything"? I thought that malfunction was called "shooting a .22 semi-auto."

That should be failure to feed since the magazine let several rounds out.

[K Frame]

I'd say a couple of those were NOT what they answer said they were.

One said "hang fire" but you could see the girl pulling the trigger twice -- the first one was a "click," the second actually fired the thing. It could have been a high primer, it could have been the slide slightly out of battery, etc.

[Hawkmoon]

8/10.

I missed 3 and 7. I think 7 (the blown-up black powder revolver) could as easily have been a barrel obstruction -- I watched the video several times and I couldn't detect anything coming out of the muzzle.

[Hawkmoon]

I'd say a couple of those were NOT what they answer said they were.

One said "hang fire" but you could see the girl pulling the trigger twice -- the first one was a "click," the second actually fired the thing. It could have been a high primer, it could have been the slide slightly out of battery, etc.

Agreed. She definitely pulled the trigger a second time.

[CypherNinja]

Missed the auto-ing SKS(?) because I clicked too fast without reading all the options, and the AR in the van because NOTHING about that makes me think 'squib'. 

[MechAg94]

What did you think of the guy doing a double fire with an M1 Garand?  They called in slam fire.  I thought that was called milking the trigger as it is a shooter malfunction, not a rifle malfunction.  I thought slam fire was when the firing pin was jammed forward. 

[Blakenzy]

Missed number 6, why couldn't that be a hammer follow?

[Perd Hapley]

Missed number 6, why couldn't that be a hammer follow?

Again, the website doesn't put the video in the same order for everyone. Nobody knows what your number 6 was.


I thought the guy in the van had a squib load, which is why the rounds weren't going into battery (barrel obstruction). Then, when the round got shoved in far enough, he chambered another round, fired, and it blew the magazine out.

[Firethorn]

I missed 3 and 7. I think 7 (the blown-up black powder revolver) could as easily have been a barrel obstruction -- I watched the video several times and I couldn't detect anything coming out of the muzzle.

I heard the round hit the target.  Also, from what the observers said, he hit it.

The lady who had to pull the trigger twice was my last one, I answered hang fire because I knew it wasn't a squib, failure to feed, or double fire.

I would have termed it a 'failure to fire', as it took a second strike of the firing pin to set it off.

I was really guessing on the stovepipe - I knew it was one, but I've only ever heard of stovepipe - never horizontal or vertical.  Same with the black powder - I flipped a coin between 'old powder' and 'wrong powder', but ended up going with 'wrong' because old could be considered wrong, and 'old powder', properly stored, isn't normally a big deal.

Anytime the gun blows up a short fire is a good guess as to culprit, as long as it's not the first shot...

10/10

[brimic]

missed the van one- had the sound turned off and answered before watching the whole thing,,,

Missed the slamfire one- I've had that happen once myself.

[Hawkmoon]

I was really guessing on the stovepipe - I knew it was one, but I've only ever heard of stovepipe - never horizontal or vertical. 

Ditto.

In fact, I don't think there is any such thing as a "horizontal stovepipe." A stovepipe is simply one type of a failure to eject, and it's nicknamed "stovepipe" because the open mouth of the empty case is sticking straight up ... like a stovepipe. Stovepipes don't point sideways, so the concept of a "horizontal stovepipe" is ridiculous.

[brimic]

Ditto.

In fact, I don't think there is any such thing as a "horizontal stovepipe." A stovepipe is simply one type of a failure to eject, and it's nicknamed "stovepipe" because the open mouth of the empty case is sticking straight up ... like a stovepipe. Stovepipes don't point sideways, so the concept of a "horizontal stovepipe" is ridiculous.

Never heard of the term either but I have seen them. Its very possible to have a cartridge partially extract/cycle then jam itself up partially in the chamber.

[Perd Hapley]

Ditto.

In fact, I don't think there is any such thing as a "horizontal stovepipe." A stovepipe is simply one type of a failure to eject, and it's nicknamed "stovepipe" because the open mouth of the empty case is sticking straight up ... like a stovepipe. Stovepipes don't point sideways, so the concept of a "horizontal stovepipe" is ridiculous.

Watch the video again.

[BlueStarLizzard]

In regards to the whole "she pulled the trigger a second time" debate;

That's one of those little Ruger's, right? I don't think they have one of those hybrid pre set triggers, which means the second trigger pull isn't going to do squat.