Cook-off??

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DeadeyeDan[ToA]

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Well there might be different meanings, but one is using grenades... you pull the pin and release the spoon, and then wait for 3 seconds or so (that is the cooking off part), then throw it... that way you don't give the enemy enough time to run/throw it back at you.
 

INF_Neo

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Another meaning:

The HK G11 fires it's 2000rpm in 3-bursts. It can't fire full auto at that speed or the bullets would cook off. That means they make a little trip out of your magazine and hurt people.
 

Unicorn

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Actually from what I remember of the weird internal mechanism of the G11 I'm not sure it could fire full-auto at that speed anyway. BTW, did they ever actually get the rifle to work in the real world? Either way it's a nice choice for the game...

The usual meaning of 'cook off' is when you've been firing an awful lot of bullets very rapidly -- typically putting a few magazines through an assault rifle or SMG on full auto pretty much non-stop -- and the chamber gets so hot that the bullets fire as soon as they get into the chamber because the heat sets them off. Not good, particularly if the slide/bolt isn't locked closed at the time.

Not sure whether this is what Neo meant to imply with his comment.
 

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A cook-off is when your ammunition discharges unintentionally from heat. This occurs after sustained prolonged firing, building up heat in the chamber. When a cartridge is chambered the heat is transferred to the metallic case and into the primer and propellant, setting the cartridge off.

Magazine cook-offs are extremely rare to non-existant unless a direct hit to the magazine manages to set off a primer. To heat the magazine to the point of cook-off would require the receiver or bolt carrier to become that hot too, and at that point you'd no longer be holding it (or one would hope).

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Is cook-off something you must be worried about always when firing a weapon for a longer-than-average period of time, or does it only happen in extreme cases (some gawd awful number of rounds fired)?
 
No, not really, I was just wondering
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