why you don't milk grenades

[moondawg 12]

My understanding is that milking and cooking a grenade can be used as to describe the pre-priming of a grenade,

whereas cooking also can mean detonation by heat, and milking to describe accidentally loosening your grip to a fatal degree.

I, having thrown a few live grenades in my life, can't understand how it is possible to loosen your grip on a grenade to the extent that the hammer strikes the primer.

The primer is designed such that the lever would have to move over 90 degrees to release the hammer.

Unless of course, US grenade design is extremely, dangerously poor. Although i doubt that.

Creds to the OP, though. The topic has brought enlightenment upon the subject, however pointless.

[LardThief 10]

My understanding is that milking and cooking a grenade can be used as to describe the pre-priming of a grenade,

whereas cooking also can mean detonation by heat, and milking to describe accidentally loosening your grip to a fatal degree.

I, having thrown a few live grenades in my life, can't understand how it is possible to loosen your grip on a grenade to the extent that the hammer strikes the primer.

The primer is designed such that the lever would have to move over 90 degrees to release the hammer.

Unless of course, US grenade design is extremely, dangerously poor. Although i doubt that.

Creds to the OP, though. The topic has brought enlightenment upon the subject, however pointless.

WARNING

If pressure on the safety lever is relaxed after the safety clip and safety pin have been removed, it is possible that the striker can rotate and strike the primer while the thrower is still holding the grenade. This is called "milking" the grenade. Throwers must be instructed to maintain enough pressure on the safety lever so the striker cannot rotate.

[moondawg 12]

So, poorly designed grenades then.

[datter 0]

The largest accidental, non-nuclear explosion in history happened during world war one when a munitions boat, the SS Mont-Blanc collided with some other boat in the Gulf of St. Laurence on Canada's east coast. The ship burned until it exploded.

That was in Halifax harbor actually, not far from my house. :)

[LardThief 10]

That warning came with a M213 fuze which is standard issue for M67 frag

[JdB 151]

If I were holding a live grenade with the pin removed in my hand, I'd hold on for dear life, not in a relaxed grip-type of way...:butbut:

[LardThief 10]

If I were holding a live grenade with the pin removed in my hand, I'd hold on for dear life, not in a relaxed grip-type of way...:butbut:

Indeed, like most people. I guess if you held on for too long your muscles MAY start to spasm. Or, maybe if you were running with it to show your friend your new toy!

Yeh, otherwise, it goes big bang so, you hold on tightly!