20 MM Recoilless Rifle (with scary hang fire and best one-liner ever)

[@willwinters3910]

"Sometimes these things are very temperamental" is probably the LAST thing you want to hear when holding a 20mm Recoiless Rifle that just misfired.

[@MrClubfoot90]

"shake it a little"

[@OG_BiggusDickus]

You know when that thing went off he was like *gasp* "I can still see!? All my limbs are still attached? nobody is treating me like an explosive leper when I ask them if all my limbs are still attached, I must fucking be alive!?"

[@chevytech7306]

I'm glad you said misfire and not hangfire

[@seaham3d695]

And its behind you.

[@jakehildebrand1824]

Better to hear it while holding this thwn while holding another recoiless rifle I know of. I'll give you a hint: Remember the Alamo!

[@Epheli.]

Gotta appreciate the professionalism..these guys know that firearm.

[@Epheli.]

@@808oh8 you mean like how she knows what a disappointment you are..

[@andrewcastiglia9548]

... this is dangerous situation regardless of how well you know situation. From the time the firing pin drops that shell should technically be treated as a live bomb and handled as such.

[@Epheli.]

@@andrewcastiglia9548 100%, hang fire is a lot more dangerous than most realize.

[@yomama9712]

@@andrewcastiglia9548 So my ass wasnt wrong when it clenched up after (with my eyes, not my ass) seeing the guy holding it in his hands? Wouldnt pretend to know shit about the rifle nor the round but yeah, I would Not want to be the one to take that round out.

[@yomama9712]

@@GrandpaLink Yes

[@itstiny.]

Had a light primer strike with a 12 gauge about a month back and was scared shitless waiting for a hang fire, I can't imagine what this guy was feeling during those seconds.

[@Rantarkansas]

Being about fifteen yards from it was enough to brown my shorts!

[@SyThco13]

@@Rantarkansas can I come by and see this thing I've been wanting a pair of brown shorts

[@FinalFront]

Yeah I bought all this Egyptian and Ethiopian surplus 8mm Mauser ammo I shoot out of my Kar98k and it's about 50% hang fire, 30% total failure to fire, and 20% successful fire no hang. The hangfires could be anywhere from a split second to 10 seconds. I bought 500 rounds of it cheap & always hoped "the next box" would be better, but it never got better.

[@bxflaps5150]

Nothing to be scared of as long as you follow procedure

[@brahtrumpwonbigly7309]

Yep. Always wait a minute or two. Lucky for me I'm usually by a river so if I've ever had a hang fire or light primer strike I wait 30 seconds and then eject into the water.

[@Horseshoecrabwarrior]

It's a recoil-less rifle, not a recoil-free rifle. There is recoil, just 'less'.

[@Epheli.]

😂 Perfection!

[@stonerdad82]

less than a howlitzer

[@ViktoriousDead]

No

[@ViktoriousDead]

So an armless man has an arm just less? No, that’s not what that means

[@driedink]

@@ViktoriousDead it's a joke

[@phillipmele8533]

Silence is the loudest noise after the firing pin hits. Excellent misfire/hangfire discipline.

[@Pariatical]

I dunno, the ring of the pin that actually hit the primer is pretty stand out when it doesnt fire.

[@YaoiMastah]

Forgotten Weapons channel brought me here.

[@joebuddy7717]

me too

[@armvex]

#metoo

[@noname-wo8zp]

YaoiMastah me to

[@ennassingletooth359]

Lol

[@kvonkirk2340]

After a year it's still brings people here. Lol

[@ronaldcheatham7242]

The hangfire moment. I imagine was rather concerning. But I admire those guys. Their knowledge of firearms carried the day. Safely. I loved the firing of that rifle. Well done.

[@nathancoleman9377]

Did i just read an email, i wish my writing was like this

[@BlazeDeval]

When the comments start talking in Haiku.

[@plasmasun]

The way that guy handled that live round that hadn't quite fired yet was like somebody picking up an alligator with chainsaw scalpels for teeth without any hesitation.

[@vortecmacs]

There’s not a clean end on a turd when you pick it up. Do what ya gotta do.

[@customconnections2425]

@@vortecmacs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AlexZanderMuro]

rounds going off outside of the chamber arent as dangerous as people make them seem. yeah theres a bang and whatnot (probably a pretty decent one with a 20mm lol) but the projectile doesnt go anywhere since theres no pressure to force it forward like there would be with a barrel and chamber. as long as you dont point the projectile end towards you, youre more than likely gonna live even if it goes off.

[@JTheraos]

@@AlexZanderMuro the round and or the casing do go shooting opposite directions but they have about as much velocity as a cheap Springer airsoft gun :P

[@vortecmacs]

@@AlexZanderMuro I’m reminded of a WWII veteran who was stationed on a 40mm Bofors. One of his jobs was to take rounds that didn’t fire and throw them over the side. He asked what would happen if it went off before he could throw it over the side. They told him, “we’ll notify your next of kin.” I don’t know if they were messing with him but the story he told was so matter of fact it made me laugh.

[@cryhavoc999]

Loudest sound on a battlefield 'Click of an empty rifle'!

[@jaratt85]

loudest sound is always silence when you expect a boom or a boom when you expect silence.

[@justinunderwood5040]

1-10 on the puckerfactor scale, this is about a 14 on the battlefield, UNLESS! It's from an AK.

[@garymitchell5899]

Rifles have relatively small bullets, not nuclear bombs

[@garymitchell5899]

@Total Pet Hospital LLC FFS as if a pilot wouldn't know his guns weren't firing

[@petermattison]

@@garymitchell5899 you smell your fingers after you wipe your ass

[@NerdyGardevoir]

Everyone knows the real reason that gun had no recoil. It was how heavy the balls on that dude were for maintaining his composure after a 20mm hang fire occurred. I’d be scared shaking if I pulled the trigger and didn’t see a boom at the end of that muzzle.

[@corvanphoenix]

Yeah that's about time to reconsider ones life I'd have thought, lol.

[@ThatOpalGuy]

Doubtful he has any, actually.

[@askmeaboutsugma]

I mean, yeah, it’s a bit spooky, but it’s more scary for the person who has to unload it than the one holding it. As long as it’s pointed down range, as long as the firearm is still closed up it’ll fire just the same. It’s only after the cartridge is removed from the chamber that you can consider it a hand grenade.

[@divisionbyzer0474]

You guys in the comments are nothing but ass kissers ...haha

[@digbick1241]

@@ThatOpalGuy And why’s that?

[@828enigma6]

Shooter has an impressive flinch of the first go.

[@lgbtqisahategroup9781]

So impressive, he almost completely aimed at the dirt right infront of him. Luckily this church goer has amazing karma and God kept the weapon of destruction from possibly killing him and everyone around him.

[@socwokcyberbully720]

@@lgbtqisahategroup9781 your god is fake and didn't do shit.

[@lgbtqisahategroup9781]

@@socwokcyberbully720 “dEr dEr der dER dEr🦧” -That’s what you just said.

[@Illness.og.]

@@socwokcyberbully720 hahaha you mad

[@azarferrari890]

My guess is he was anticipating recoil that never came so it just looks like he points it down a bit instead

[@larrygrimes824]

Worked on 20MM weapons in the Navy and would never handle a misfire that soon. From my experience these were used in aircraft and fire at a rate of 1000-4000 rounds a minute depending on the gun/gun pod type.

[@darthsphincter909]

That's why ye old 20mm round is so successful. What was once fired out of janky metal tubes at blocky, slow armored vehicles is now, a hundred years later, essentially the same round being fired out of modern aircraft.

[@marcusborderlands6177]

@@darthsphincter909 it's a totally different round that just happens to be the same diameter.

[@johnosman8971]

@@marcusborderlands6177 I guess you did not get the correlation of the previous comment, …

[@marcusborderlands6177]

@@johnosman8971 I did, however, most 20mm rounds are VASTLY different, especially the one shown in this vid, which is a recoilless rifle round, which is really fuckin big, and perforated, meaning your statement didnt mean much

[@Technichian462]

The Vulcan has two rates of fire, in the F-4E anyway, 3,000 and 6,000 rounds per minutes. Worked on them for 8 years, never had a hung gun. Plenty of HUNG munitions though, from practice bombs to million dollar missiles. Us loaders would turn it over to EOD. The get the training for that kind of fun. And the extra pay.

[@Hitchclif]

"I got it covered, don't worry" "NEW GUY!"

[@williamhesprich9040]

Thankfully I never heard of a hang fire for the 120 MM Recoilless Rifles we had in our Guard Unit. They were fired on a carriage that could be placed on the ground, or mounted the whole thing on the back half of a Jeep. The barrel was locked down in a yoke pointed forward during transport. The back blast was deadly, starting grass fires, etc.

[@phoque6]

106 recoiless?

[@phoque6]

@@SuperSaltydog77 yup i am 106mm recoiless trained as well with the M40. Infantry. 120mm are mortars not recoiless

[@Bucherlox]

Sorry, but that wasn't a hang fire, that was a MISFIRE. Nice peace of equipment nevertheless.

[@PugilistCactus]

Bucherlox yup, some dumb shit didn't do proper maintenance. This things firing pin is probably waaaaay past its intended number of uses.

[@cinedelasestrellas]

He didn’t say that he had a hang fire, he said that there could have been a hang fire, which is why the shooter kept the gun pointed down range and the other guys stayed clear and waited a little while before trying to unload the gun, just in case it went off after a delay. Once they were confident that they didn’t have a hang fire, they unloaded the gun.

[@BeaverTerror]

Piece, not peace.

[@SgfGustafsson]

The problem is that you don't know that until you open the breach, better safe than sorry.

[@bluewater82]

Mark the title of the video is what is calling it a hang fire.

[@davidkeeton6716]

I already got it covered, the new guy! That's the sound of a vet. Love it. Be safe.

[@celtisafricana4984]

One of the 10 commandments of modern warfare... recoilless rifles aren't

[@liamgriffin218]

Celtis Africana also... Friendly fire isn't

[@celtisafricana4984]

@@liamgriffin218 indeed. Incoming artillery has the right of way. I must find that list and post it

[@DTSephiroth]

Suppressive fire won't.

[@billythecrayon983]

Glad everyone there knew what they were doing and how to properly handle a hang fire of such a large caliber gun, no one got hurt and everyone got to have fun

[@garyquail2347]

Pretty interesting video this video can serve as a training video to those to be prepared for a delay fire in the situation but one thing that kind of irk,d me was the guy that came up right next to him and pulls out the cartridge when he should not have done that I'd wait another minute or two before extracting that cartridge out of the chamber.

[@davej3781]

he waited 58 seconds, is it really possible for a hang fire go off after even half that time?

[@talk4dews]

@@davej3781 I've heard stories of hangfires going off after 1.5 minutes. Its exceptionally rare if those stories are to be believed, but old or degraded ammunition is unpredictable.

[@davej3781]

@@talk4dews interesting that it could ever take that long, I always thought 30 seconds was several times longer than the longest it could reasonably take (if, as you say, such stories are to be believed). I suspect that a small caliber round going off after ejection would certainly be bad, but not likely overly destructive, while a 20mm recoilless rifle round going off after ejection could be devastating, so waiting a few extra minutes for one of those would be a good idea.

[@RamadaArtist]

Even worse that he took the thing out and just held it for a while before reloading it. If it were an actual hang-fire, instead of a light strike or something like it looks like, that shell could have gone off in his hands.

[@user-td1zo3tv9p]

@RamadaArtist , they'd have called him "Stumpy" or something equally mean since he probably wouldn't exist if the round went off in both hands next to his chest and head.

[@nonyabiz9487]

Ive had a lot of true hang fires before... Piss poor ammo is to blame on that. To have a hang fire the shell has to go off with of course a delay. Everytime the delay is only about a couple seconds at most and the shell goes off. They say you have to wait at least one minute but never ever have I seen a hang fire happen after more than a couple seconds. I wouldnt take the chance and wait that 60 seconds though especially with that monster!

[@andrewcastiglia9548]

If that round had decided to detonate in his hand it likey would have killed several people there.

[@Michael-bn1oi]

@@andrewcastiglia9548 probably just blown his hand off. But you never know.

[@nickgamble4544]

@@andrewcastiglia9548 it would not. When a unchambered round goes off it just splits the case and blows out all the force with little collateral damage. Now the guy holding it might have lost his hand but most likely nobody would have died.

[@jamesbrooks9321]

that is a terrifying weapon to get a hangfire on

[@shannonpinion5729]

The M20 recoilless rifle is a U.S. 75 mm caliber recoilless rifle T21E12 that was used during the last months of the Second World War and extensively during the Korean War. It could be fired from an M1917A1.30 caliber machine gun tripod, or from a vehicle mount, typically a Jeep. when did a 20mm recoiless rifle get fielded? I know there was a 57mm also used in Korea

[@r.awilliams9815]

The US didn't field a 20mm recoilless rifle to my knowledge, the weapon in the video appears to be a Carl Gustav Pvg m/42 fielded by Sweden during WW2. How it ended up in the US is probably an interesting story.

[@ant4812]

@@r.awilliams9815 Go check out the Forgotten Weapons video. This might even be the same weapon Ian looked at.

[@Jkaninteangemittnamn]

Apperently there were also bigger calibers developed later ,not only 20mm but 40 but since swedes found and copied panzerfaust , they ended up later with 84mm

[@a64738]

It looks like and sounds like it has a lot more concussion from the back-blast then the modern much much larger ones...

[@Curtis.Carpenter]

thats just due to design, it became much more efficient nowadays and in the past 20years. i believe this was one of the very first non-closed gass systems, where a big portion of the cartridge is vented out the back for stabilization. im sure you know that, but i just wanted to explain in the off chance your also just seeing this particular rifle for the first time like me. ive always wondered what an anti tank rifle was and i cannot believe how MASSIVE those shells are. good god! youd could drop that on someone from 15-20feet and probably kill them from the weight alone >< i mean its the size of one of those nerf footballs from the mid-late90s that whistled sweet jesus! hahaha

[@sharonrigs7999]

I bought some post WW1 vintage 8mm Lebel (25 or so years ago)where about 1 in 5 hangfired. So...I pulled the bullets, replaced the primers and powder, reseated the bullets and all was good! It was a big PITA since they were Berdan primed, but finding Boxer primed brass was extremely difficult back then.

[@matfiz1782]

for those waiting, he only shot at 1:50

[@israelperez570]

That gun was pretty smooth. Thx for the demonstration

[@lokiprepper]

My brother had a misfire with a 357 revolver one time. Fortunately we knew to wait a few seconds just in case, and it was a good thing we did because the round discharged after about five seconds. Our dad always told us to count to 10 seconds if you have a misfire before emptying the round just in case it cooks off slowly. Good thing we did that or he would’ve turned that revolver into an improvised hand grenade.

[@toomanyaccounts]

30 seconds for modern ammo made in the last 25 years. 60 seconds for antique or black powder to be on the safe. this is if you hear the primer being struck hard enough to pop.

[@thattaffetafg2569]

This is at the OFASTS in Oklahoma. If you’re near you should look into it. Some of the most fun you’ll ever have

[@TomburiohTalun]

The sound was very satisfying.

[@Drigoon12]

Man respect to him and the range staff. They did everything correctly

[@Verdunveteran]

The correct name for this beeing 20 mm Pansarvärnsgevär fm/42.

[@ElDiablo223]

I salute the shooter for his professionalism and patience o7.

[@DanGoodShotHD]

Not a hang fire. That was a light primer strike. Still treat both situations the same. Hang fire is when you pull the trigger, and it goes click. Wait a few, then boom. Light primer strike is when it goes click. Wait a few, and nothing happens. Ether way could be a dangerous situation if not handled correctly in which these guys did. Either way, good video!

[@nuanenfreohr]

You beat me to it lol

[@chris101ward]

@@nuanenfreohr my guess is they purposely mistitled the video for more engagement, knowing people like you would comment.

[@deathdude-dl2et]

@@chris101ward or they originally thought it was a hang fire

[@AdamantLightLP]

@@chris101ward ah yes, always assume bad intentions instead of assuming misunderstanding :/

[@chris101ward]

@@AdamantLightLP bad intentions? I never implied bad intentions. It's helpful to his channel to encourage people to comment, and it's a known tactic used by some content creators to generate more engagement. And it works, because well, here we are.

[@snakedike]

I can't blame the man for the flinch with this firearm. That's a beast.

[@SyThco13]

That is a beast of a piece.. Wish I had that with a long range scope!

[@schwadron]

This

[@billwhiteathome2080]

Hang fire....that moment when you fondly remember feeling safe, watching Captain Kangaroo on TV as a child.

[@jevve1388]

1:57 Thank me later

[@mistercarlos5299]

Legend

[@mateusz_0]

@@mistercarlos5299 why

[@npche9865]

Cheers, I despise videos that take the plss and waste my time.

[@bretth9944]

Love when vids have minutes of inaction and a couple of seconds of action at the end. Oh, and a 15 sec ad at the start and at the end.

[@Rantarkansas]

Sorry. I don't control the ad length. As for the length of the video, I thought some of the banter was funny.

[@piratedrum]

SWEET JESUS DID YOU SEE THAT RECOIL ANTICIPATION?!

[@mdd1963]

that's one embarrassing as hell mega-flinch!

[@sheldoniusRex]

Hey I went to OFASTS once. Blew a month's rent shooting machine guns. Got a wicked sunburn too. Fun times.

[@chuckvan1568]

That's a heck of a recoil flinch! Thought this was "recoiless" and wouldn't recoil.

[@tylerdavis496]

Chuck Van no shit dude bought jumped out his pant! squeeze goddamnit! expescially with a 20mm God only knows where it could've ended up!

[@ennassingletooth359]

Recoiless doesnt means there is no recoil ,but less recoil than the other anti tank rifles

[@PugilistCactus]

Try firing a 20mm non recoiless standing up. You gonna be on your ass. This just has inertial force going back and forward, which is what makes it "recoiless" so to say.

[@brodyleephotography2177]

Recoilless as in recoils less

[@wotman8942]

no gun can be recoiless u baka

[@danielmantell3084]

Note to self: Never be the new guy in a place where things explode.

[@tyrranicalt-rad6164]

I heard 5 hillbilly's a year lose a hand this way.

[@feeder8164]

Range officer: If nothing happens, you do absolutely nothing. Shooter: copy that Hannibal Smith: I love it when a plan comes together.

[@gullinbursti118]

EVERYBODY saw you flinch the shit out of that trigger

[@deathsicon]

His reaction after pulling the live round has me thinking it was a light primer strike, not a true hang fire, doesn't make it any less terrifying though

[@UrbanMiningWithGearHead]

Beast! I have some blue-tipped rounds if anyone is interested. Believe they showed as 'practice' rounds when I looked em up

[@sida9439]

Yep, blue = "övning" or practice, green = "blind" or inert, brown = "barlastad" or just solid projectile, yellow = "stridsladdad" or combat ammunition i.e, armor-piercing or HE. Im pretty sure these are the same markings that NATO uses aswell.

[@Music.cigars.2024]

It is such a privilege to be able to experience what he is experiencing....

[@schizoid9847]

Doesn't look recoiless to me..in fact the recoil looked quite severe. Its probably a lot less than what it could have been..but still..damn!!

[@xiro6]

probably?lets say you can beat the olimpic distance jump....going backwards.

[@KommandantGSR]

I love it when people say "anti-panzer tank rifle" shits funny, i understand it's been put as that role but panzer means tank in geramn, Therefor saying "Anti-Tank Tank Rifle" as if it was a TD (Tank Destroyer) class for a Tank

[@DougsDiggers]

not exactly a hangfire still spooky

[@mihalis1010]

Legend has it that guy is still standing there waiting for it to go off.

[@DonziGT230]

The scariest part is that the people handling this don't know the difference between a hang-fire and a miss-fire, that was a miss-fire.

[@christopherhall5361]

but until they took the round out and checked it, they couldn't know for sure. that thing could have fired the moment he opened the breach and blew his fucking hand off, that would have been a hang-fire. the scariest part about people commenting on firearms is they often confuse issues by spouting off misused terminology causing people who know fuckall about guns to demand they be illegal

[@DonziGT230]

@@christopherhall5361 You think a person needs to remove and inspect a round to know if it's a hang-fire or miss-fire; you're part of the problem that you're complaining about.

[@christopherhall5361]

@@DonziGT230 yes, you do have to check the round, in a hang-fire the primer has been struck and can still go off, a miss-fire may not have struck the primer at all, if you don't have the brain cell count to recognize the difference, you shouldn't comment on fucking anything.

[@HighGear39]

That’s not a hang fire, that’s a failure to fire from hard primer or light primer strike. A hang fire is click (a period of time) bang. This was click, reload, second strike I stand bang.

[@colbyp678]

I bet those rounds cost a fortune so they said hell with it let's try again.

[@timpayne1057]

What a terrifying weapon for all parties involved.

[@Bruce6001]

He double tapped that brASS 👀👀👀

[@aestheticallypleasinglands464]

Never will I ever wait 2 Mins for that tiny flash again

[@weld_dat_fakah740]

That was the worst shot anticipation I've ever seen. But it is a 20 mm so I will cut the guy some slack

[@CB-ux5xc]

Agreed it was bad. Even for 20mm. Don’t fight it.

[@eugenenieto7589]

Dear God- don't give her a full curtsey before the click, Cinderella!

[@rattlesnake2345]

I remember during OFASTS one year they fired a 20 mm recoilless rifle and it lit everything up like it was daylight in pitch black night

[@sombojoe]

That was hell of a “trigger jerk”!

[@garrettmandujano2996]

Gave me that sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, thanks

[@therealsilvershadows1909]

That trigger snatch on the no strike though 😁😁😁

[@Alpha-Mike-Foxtrot]

Carl gustav would be proud

[@robertjackson6346]

Dude stood there still and calm, I'd been sitting my drawars..

[@kylekuehne5976]

The frame with the blast at 1:58 is insaine!!!!!

[@kylekuehne5976]

Play from 1:57 then time the pause at 1:58

[@charlierosene1117]

It's a good thing that the enemy and the target patiently waited as well

[@mikehenthorn1778]

The scariest sound isn't a lion roaring about to leap, or the trumpet of an elephant about to charge, but a click when you wanted a bang

[@MrTruckerf]

That is not a hang fire. It was a misfire which fired on the second try. A hang fire is when there is a slight delay between pulling the trigger and the cartridge firing.

[@philc9305]

Amazing how many people don't understand that.

[@matthewhall7976]

That was really cool and the guy handled it like a champ..

[@darkhelmet4279]

That was very far from cool! Hang fires are very unpredictable. Sometimes taking several minutes to go off. Could have ended very badly! YIKES!

[@strayblackcatsmeow]

That was a misfire. The primer only ignites once and it did not ignite on first try. He properly followed procedure in case it was a hang fire, a delay between primer ignition and powder ignition. Did get the flinch out of his shooting though.

[@thetoxicshaman]

my gun safety and hunters training never taught me about hang fire.. I know what a misfire is and in fact when going through the woods I got my boots tangled up in the 1000th bush of thorns that morning and was pissed off so I slammed the butt of my 12 Guage down and heard the firing pin hit the shell as I stared down the barrel. I was 14. I kinda stared down into it in disbelief that in an alternate universe my head got blown off in the middle of the woods alone. shell never went off and I have a lil shell with a firing pin dent on the primer I keep as a memento.

[@rockyloccgarage2040]

Now i realise that i could have blown up my hand after learning about these types of malfunctions

[@austinfarr3296]

Hell yeah. That's a professional right there.

[@lwwkicker]

That flinch when he pulled the trigger tho...

[@benridge6570]

You know that feeling when you pull the trigger on safety . I had that for about 30 seconds waiting for the rifle to go off 😂

[@slayeryt637]

I've had two misfires with a 22 rifle. Those thirty seconds were the longest of my life.

[@joshuaforbus5853]

I imagine it should be mounted yes or no. Semper Fi edited....That could of been a very capable tool in war. 1997-2006 Marine infantryman Sgt

[@fasteddie4107]

I haven’t heard “FNG” since I worked for a unionized package carrier.

[@Magneticitist]

Dang I was clenching pretty hard waiting for that hangfire but luckily it worked out

[@WimsicleStranger]

wow he REALLY anticipated for that recoil lol. The amount he pulled that recoil-less gun down like how a new shooter pulls their pistol down when dryfiring was pretty funny ngl xd

[@jimklemens5018]

Dude has got a serious flinch when he pulls the trigger.

[@Chrispy_tV]

I was gonna make fun of his flinch but then I got to the end when it went off. I’m ok with the flinch 🤣 🤣.

[@daveyoung465]

You never going to be accurate when you anticipate the shot and flinch into it.

[@painmt651]

Excellent fire line discipline!

[@OlSgtLove]

Tough steel balls of the dude who unmatched it and pull that round out in his hands ...cause when you been around alot of ordnance in the field you never know when you have a problem like this ...I seen'em hurt or killed ...

[@adventuremanintheclouds8968]

That's a hell of a lot of recoil for a recoiless rifle!

[@sida9439]

Considering the amount of powder, if all would have been contained it would have knocked the shooter on his ass. So this is recoiling less than a closed breach rifle i.e. recoilless :D

[@Mr_Zimm]

Look at that flinch and trigger pull.

[@Will-dn9dq]

2 scariest sounds guns make bang when you expect click and click when you expect bang.

[@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus]

At least they did the right thing! That would be a concerning incident for the shooter. My old surplus 8x57 ammo used to do that often. Even with a good pin strike.

[@MrTruckerf]

I have had many hangfires in my life. The longest was about 1.5 seconds on some 70 year-old .30 US (30/40 Krag) ammo made in 1898. You could hear it sizzling before it went off. If you shoot a lot of ancient ammo you will have them.

[@bjnuma01]

Love the trigger snatch!

[@AkimY2000]

Thank you youtube for giving me this recommendation

[@CharlesConover]

When it doesn’t go off and it feels like you’re holding a live grenade!

[@wesleywlee]

Handled like professionals

[@Jordan-rb28]

That explosion looked like a tank firing, Jesus

[@JK-dl6ql]

Mega anticipation on that trigger pull. Must of pushed it down a foot.

[@Show_quality_trash]

The scariest thing ever is hearing click when there should be a bang

[@chuckg2016]

This is the first I've seen of a shoulder fired recoiled rifle.

[@fishing_with_chaz]

Made me super nervous when the dude pulled out the round that had the light strike was like hope it don't go off in his hand

[@828enigma6]

Not a hang fire. A hang fire would have gone off without the primer being struck again. This was due to either a light primer strike or hard primer. Maybe both.