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getting a stuck bullet out of a barrel

ccddbb95448ccddbb95448 Member Posts: 796 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2005 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
I know it is not safe but that's not the question, can you seat primers
in a case and fire primer only to push bullet out of barrel.[:)]
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  • agman1999agman1999 Member Posts: 981 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Even if you ignored any safety issues, I don't see how this could work. A squib load, with a short/contaminated/wet charge, didn't generate enough pressure to force the bullet out of the barrel. How will a primer alone accomplish the job?
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  • ccddbb95448ccddbb95448 Member Posts: 796 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    not even one inch at a time? Better then pounding a dowel in the barrel.
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    there are some pretty "iffy" tricks.

    take a rifle and butt it's muzzle to the muzzle of the rifle with the bullet stuck in it. remove the bolt from the rifle with the stuck bullet and stuff a rag into the action. Now,..take a primed case with no powder or bullet, insert it into the other rifle and chamber it. Tape the two muzzles together so no gasses escape, and fire the second rifle. the transfer of gasses from the primer should in 1 or 2 trys, back that bullet out and into the rag.

    a second and much more agreeable way,..is to take the jag off your cleaning rod,..send it down the bore, and give it a whack. that bullet will back right out as a primer can't send a bullet very far into the rifling by itself.

    why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    use the wood dowel rod......its safer
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    I've seen muzzle loaders blow up when the bullet was not seated correctly. It leaves to much area to build pressure in and maybe or maybe not move the bullet. Use the dowel or carry it to a smith.

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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Will270win,..that condition can be compared to the "secondary ignition" situation with too little powder in a rifle case. The air over the powder charge allows the primer spark to jump across the whole charge and ignite it's entirety and causes an instant pressure spike.

    why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
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  • Ronald J. SnowRonald J. Snow Member Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't use wood dowels as they break, thereby compounding the problem. I use a brass rod, it will not hurt the rifling.
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  • firstharmonicfirstharmonic Member Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by azgundude
    Use another shot to smash the other bullet right out. Works like a charm.


    I sure do hope that you're joking! That first bullet is no longer a projectile, it's an obstruction. If a person tried your answer and was lucky, they might get by with a bulged or "ringed" barrel. Or it could be much worse. This idea is dangerous.

    Added later: Looks like the Gun Dude's gone!

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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    reply deleted.
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  • rimfire72rimfire72 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You didn't say,and I'm suprised no one asked,are we talking a cast lead bullet or jacketed? If its a lead bullet just use a dowel rod (the largest that will fit your barrel) and push it back out towards the chamber.

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  • CHGOTHNDERCHGOTHNDER Member Posts: 8,936 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When in doubt take it to a competent gunsmith, while some of the ideas above will work (and 1 I wouldn't even try) it's better to take it in and have it checked after the bullet is removed. Better safe than sorry.

    PJ

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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If it is was fired into the rifling with ONLY a primer and NO powder,..it is sitting just into the rifling. A cleaning rod and a whach with your hand will remove it. If it was a squib load and the bullet is lodged in the rifling more than an inch or so,..a gunsmith may be best.

    P.S. A hunting guide removed a stuck bullet on the side of a mountain in Montana for a pard of mine, with the primed case and taped barrel trick. There is not enough pressure created by a primer to drive a bullet fast enough to cause any physical damage to you or the rifle. When I have removed stuck bullets fired by a primer,..they were only just engraved by the rifling and sitting in the throat/leade. One small tap on the cleaning rod pushes them out.

    why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
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  • ElbestaElbesta Member Posts: 334 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Use a brass or aluminum (sp) rod with a 1/4 deep hole drilled in the end to keep the rod centered and not crush the soft point and tap the bullet out. An old cleaning rod will work, just find one almost the size of the barrel.
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  • ContacFrontContacFront Member Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Its always a good idea to have a squib rod handy. All I did was get a old cleaning rod and dipped it in the rubber solution you buy at the hardware store and it is good to go.
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  • vytisvytis Member Posts: 21 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If the bullet is just squibed into the bore from a primer, simply droping a heavy steel GI type cleaning rod into the muzzle should knock it out. If it's well and truly stuck grease the bore liberaly and drive it out from the BREECH end not the muzzle. Ditto on the earlier comment on using a brass rod. These are usualy available at a really good hardware or farm store (i.e. not Lowes etc.) Don't try shooting it out, you may ring bore, chamber or worse. Pull the bullets on the rest of that batch of ammo and check to save yourself the pain of having to do this all over.

    john Brazaitis
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