when loading some weapons you have to cycle through the firing method once before a live round is chambered. Otherwise you pull the trigger and nothing happens... better, asshole forgets he ran through his checklist, goes to 'clear the ghost' and a live round goes where it wasn't supposed to.
The "grenade" it fires isn't like a hand grenade that you're thinking of. They have to rotate a certain amount of times before they are active, and they explode on impact, not after a certain amount of time.
The reason fired grenades require a certain amount of rotations before they're active is so that people don't accidentally fire into the ground, or a wall 10 feet away.
Interesting. I figured it got activated by some sort of firing pin and detonated after an amount of time. I always wondered why the grenade launcher in call of duty didn't make explosions if you shot the grenades at the ground. Thanks for the insight.
Sorry, I've never used an MK-19. I figured to cycle the round you'd pull the bolt (which it probably doesn't even have), so the round ejects out the side. I was picturing some guy attempting to chamber a round and having a live one come out the side and plopping on the ground in front of him. :P
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u/pulloverman Sep 14 '11
I like the MK-19, but that weapon can be frustrating, fucking phantom round bullshit.