Ohh, there's a whole lot of SOPs to go through on that one. If you really want to know, I can point you to the technical manual (it's not hard to understand) and it will tell you exactly what needs to be done. (do a search for misfire in the pdf document)

but basically it depends on how hot the tube is. It will get hot from constant firing, and isn't really much of a problem to worry about unless you're in some deep shit and have been firing non-stop. The thermal indicator is green, yellow and red for cold, warm and hot. I've never seen it past low warm.

So basically what happens after you pull the string and nothing happens is that you pull it three more times. If still nothing happens, you try another primer. If still nothing happens, it's the firing mechanism or the firing pin. those need to be replaced. If they do need to be replaced, you just take the powder out of the tube (considering a cold tube) and replace it and fire away.

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What do you do with an arty misfire anyway -- wait 60 seconds and then open the breech and slide the shell back out?

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Ha! "Hangfire" - I haven't heard that in a while.

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What do you do with an arty misfire anyway -- wait 60 seconds and then open the breech and slide the shell back out?

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Ha! "Hangfire" - I haven't heard that in a while.

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Ha! "Hangfire" - I haven't heard that in a while.

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Oh the humanity!

I haven't felt this soiled since Ashlee Simpson got caught on SNL. Oh the humanity!

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Oh the humanity. Straight out of Idiocracy.

Oh the humanity!

Not surprised to see this shooting up the top 15. Should've officially called it when it rolled out of the queue.

@Animals - heck, GTA1 had multiplayer too - this'll be great.

I remember fleeing my friend's police car in a VW bug... oh, the chaos. Oh the humanity.

Warm coffee FTW indeed, that's hilariously awesome.


I LOVE that (below) phraseology.

>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^Baera:
The crooks are trying to get to a randomly selected extraction point and the cops are trying to arrest them with bullets."

Fear mongering. 22 vaccine-caused "outbreaks" compared to the millions saved?

Yes, it would supremely suck to be in that 0.000022%, but since more people are now killed by taking a shower in the morning, I guess we should get rid of indoor plumbing as well.

OH, THE HUMANITY!

It's not just the UK. It's all of Youtube... YouTube is rickrolling everyone.

Oh the humanity %-(

My eyes! My eyes! The children! Oh, the humanity!

"AAARRRGH!!! My Hands are Made of Pins!"

"... and my furniture, bookshelf, and head are made of thin membranes full of air which, in a terrible twist of fate, are vulnerable to pin pricks leading to a very unfortunate life, oh the humanity...."

'OH and human flesh should just be called "man".'

Yea, right, and have all the feminists ticked off that we gave human flesh a male name? I'm going with plug.



On another sub-thread, does anyone else get turned off by the term brine? It just doesn't have that sound of something tasty to me.

OH and human flesh should just be called "man". Man steak, country fried man, boiled man, roast man, manwhich, man jerky, man stew.... Man, it's what's for dinner!