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Encyclopedia > Hang fire

The term hang fire refers to a state in which an unexpected delay is encountered between a firearm being triggered and the initiation of the propellant. This mode of failure was common in firearm actions which relied upon open primer pans, due to poor/inconsistent quality powder. Modern weapons are susceptible, particulary where the ammunition has been stored in an environment outside of the design specification.


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hang. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. (803 words)
To be slow in firing, as a gun.
hang in there Informal To persevere despite difficulties; persist: She hung in there despite pressure to resign.
Hanged, as a past tense and a past participle of hang, is used in the sense of “to put to death by hanging,” as in Frontier courts hanged many a prisoner after a summary trial.
Online Etymology Dictionary (153 words)
in northern England dial., and hanged endured only in legal language (which tends to be conservative) and metaphors extended from it (I'll be hanged).
Teen slang sense of "spend time" first recorded 1951; hang around "idle, loiter" is from 1830, and hang out (v.) is from 1844.
Hang fire (1781) was originally used of guns that were slow in communicating the fire through the vent to the charge.
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