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Old 10-06-2014, 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Plane-Eater View Post
The chamber heats up enough that when the next cartridge is fed into place, it overheats and fires without the hammer dropping, which cycles the weapon and causes another round to feed, which fires... you get the idea.
This the "cook off" problem I described, but your explanation is better.

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Originally Posted by Plane-Eater View Post
The Korean-era P-51 pilots manual explains burst lengths and runaway gun heat issues.
Link? All I could find online is the 1945 P-51D manual.
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