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Firing Out of Battery
Well, it took me a while, but I finally did join 'that other site'. I don't post but I do sort of lurk around and read.
I don't know if any of ya'll are members over there or not, but there is a member there who posted a thread about a 5.7 that blew up in his hand because it fired out of battery! I pulled the magazine from mine and inserted an empty and tested my own personal weapon. It fired a full 1/4 inch out of battery!
I'm sorry ya'll but that scares me. I'm using this as a duty weapon and now I find this out? I never would have thought it unless I tested it.
He went on about how FN never really got back to him and he feels like they just wished he would go away, or else they just forgot about him. I can't imagine I would forget a customer whose gun blew up in their hand!
He did say that he was shooting reloads, and normally I would have jumped all over that as I know a lot of reloaders who tend to 'hotload'. But firing out of battery has nothing to do with the load charge. That's purely mechanical, and in this case, poor design.
Just kowing that mine COULD fire a full 1/4 inch out of battery has me to the point that I'm switching holsters today and putting my Glock back into service.
I can't believe that I bought a $900 'target pistol'.
I don't know if any of ya'll are members over there or not, but there is a member there who posted a thread about a 5.7 that blew up in his hand because it fired out of battery! I pulled the magazine from mine and inserted an empty and tested my own personal weapon. It fired a full 1/4 inch out of battery!
I'm sorry ya'll but that scares me. I'm using this as a duty weapon and now I find this out? I never would have thought it unless I tested it.
He went on about how FN never really got back to him and he feels like they just wished he would go away, or else they just forgot about him. I can't imagine I would forget a customer whose gun blew up in their hand!
He did say that he was shooting reloads, and normally I would have jumped all over that as I know a lot of reloaders who tend to 'hotload'. But firing out of battery has nothing to do with the load charge. That's purely mechanical, and in this case, poor design.
Just kowing that mine COULD fire a full 1/4 inch out of battery has me to the point that I'm switching holsters today and putting my Glock back into service.
I can't believe that I bought a $900 'target pistol'.
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Sorry Iceman but I just had to comment on this whole topic of the FiveseveN firing out of battery. I am brand new to FN firearms and in 7 days I will be picking up my new Fiveseven USGiCeMaN said:
I purchased it before ever reading the guys story of how his Fiveseven almost blew his fingers off. Well after reading that I had this sinking feeling in my stomach and thought , DAMN it did I just purchase a handgun that is going to be recalled or will I be putting myself in harms way when I take it out for the first time. I mean did I just drop $800 of my hard earned money on a potentially dangerous gun? I just wanted to say that after reading all the posts very carefully I have come to the conclusion that the FiveseveN is beyond safe and I can't wait to get mine. I will not be firing reloads only factory fresh ammunition. I believe that he must have double charged the load to have the result he had. Anyway , I am glad to be here learning about the FiveseveN from you guys who have experience with the weapon. Soon I will be contributing my experiences shooting the FiveseveN. I FREAKING CAN'T WAIT
I was a little unsure but by the time I had read the guy FN I had decided that the guy had had a reload problem that he failed to see or admit and went I went ahead and bought the gun.
The 5n7 is now my primary home defense weapon and I have procured a very good stock pile of 195 & 197 ammo and converted the house magazine to a 30 rounder. Then I added a laser and found that the POI was the same when set for 60' down to 12' when red dot was level with barrel to max visible range, can't wait to switch to green laser.
Now for accuracy the verdict is still out as far a small groups like I do with my S&W 610-3 seen below,
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but then there is no trigger that is smooth as silk with 2lb DA trigger pull. However I can do 13 of 20 in the black of standard full size silhouette at 125 yards with me standing and firing as fast as I can recover to the target. I did not time myself but would say 45 to 60 seconds for the group. This all means the B&E felon have no chance unless they have lot of body armor on before entry and very few B&E or home intruders are decked out that way.
If the local tactical shop ever comes though I will have an AR 57 to go with the FNH and then I will be set. That said the owner and I both think the Mfg or wholesalers are hanging on to these AR-57's for increase in $$$ as election time draws closer. The shop owner says he is seeing this same lack of availability showing up for all the popular black rifle calibers.
The 5n7 is now my primary home defense weapon and I have procured a very good stock pile of 195 & 197 ammo and converted the house magazine to a 30 rounder. Then I added a laser and found that the POI was the same when set for 60' down to 12' when red dot was level with barrel to max visible range, can't wait to switch to green laser.
Now for accuracy the verdict is still out as far a small groups like I do with my S&W 610-3 seen below,
but then there is no trigger that is smooth as silk with 2lb DA trigger pull. However I can do 13 of 20 in the black of standard full size silhouette at 125 yards with me standing and firing as fast as I can recover to the target. I did not time myself but would say 45 to 60 seconds for the group. This all means the B&E felon have no chance unless they have lot of body armor on before entry and very few B&E or home intruders are decked out that way.
If the local tactical shop ever comes though I will have an AR 57 to go with the FNH and then I will be set. That said the owner and I both think the Mfg or wholesalers are hanging on to these AR-57's for increase in $$$ as election time draws closer. The shop owner says he is seeing this same lack of availability showing up for all the popular black rifle calibers.
Oh boy. You have no idea what you've just done. Be prepared.
Also all the reported cases so far have been attributed to someone over charging a reload. Couldn't tell you an exact number.
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