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esxmarkc wrote: A primer strike that looks like a normal hit diminishes the probability of a slam-firing even further.

bronco78 wrote: Oh wait..... I cant just look, it's not my gun, I don't have the case, and both are in another town with the owner.. My apology's if that was not clear in the previous posts..

I acknowledge, the various requests for information, as it becomes available I'll add it to the thread.

But you can ask

That will help to figure out what caused the weapon to fire

LongHairedRedneck wrote:Stll would like to know what the primer on the spent casing looked like. Normal indentation? Crushed? Light strike? no marking at all?

Is the author of this thread going to answer this???

This will help in determining if you had a true slam fire or a malfunction which led to firing when the weapon came into battery.

Stll would like to know what the primer on the spent casing looked like. Normal indentation? Crushed? Light strike? no marking at all?

Most weapons only slam fire after being fired and the slide/action is returning to battery with more force than just letting the slide go. Or the ammunition had weak primers but if its factory ammunition I highly doubt thats the case. Slam fires usually occour on surplus military style weapons that are designed to use "hard" primered ammuniton that can withstand the forces of being used in a automatic weapon and the operator uses commercial "light" primered ammunition.

I suspect that this is a firearm malfunction and not a true slam fire.

What did the primer of the spent casing look like? Was it a normal strike? Crushed? Light strike? No marking on primer?