Help me out here, how can it not be dangerous?I had a chain fire in my 1851 brasser .36 back in 1985. Too bad there was no YouTube!
It IS disconcerting, to say the least. But it didn't hurt me or the gun; both of us are still around.
So long as your hands are behind the front plane of the cylinder, it's just a underwear destroying event. Even with a modern revolver, you don't want your hands anywhere near the front of the cylinder.Help me out here, how can it not be dangerous?
So the projectiles just all buzz off in the general direction the gun was pointed?So long as your hands are behind the front plane of the cylinder, it's just a underwear destroying event. Even with a modern revolver, you don't want your hands anywhere near the front of the cylinder.
How did you extract that from my post?Help me out here, how can it not be dangerous?
Generally, yes. BUT, as with any firearm, discharge when not initiated by the user is not a good thing and while most times a chain fire won't damage anything besides your underwear, it's possible for damage to happen to the gun.So the projectiles just all buzz off in the general direction the gun was pointed?