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Posted: 8/12/2013 8:39:11 PM EDT
| I went out with my middy and my brand new pistol build today. Had multiple magazines and was planning on burning a few boxes of steel through the middy that eats anything and likes it. Had a couple of FTEs with brass in the new pistol, but easily cleared and was firing well. Accidentally put in a mag of steel and now I'm screwed. Have a round with a solid primer strike stuck in the chamber. Not sure if it is a live round or just a shell. Tried to knock it out with a brass rod to no avail. Thinking About freezing it, but really contemplating just tossing it as it was a cheap barrel and is probably f'd as it is. Any other revolutionary ideas or just move on with life and get another barrel. |
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You don't recall if the round went bang or not? Probably it didn't fire if just tapping with a brass rod didn't knock out the empty.
Chucking the barrel's certainly easiest. If it were me, I'd at least try to get the round out a bit more, because I hate throwing away otherwise perfectly good things. I'd probably try a near-bore diameter brass rod, clamp the barrel in a bench vise, and smack the rod down good and hard with a two by four a number of times - keeping muzzle and open breech in safe directions, and myself away from either opening. |
| My first attempt would have been to fire it if at all possible. Take barrel off upper if possible, clamp in solid vise with both ends pointing in a safe direction. Take a wooden dowel and whack it at a distance to set back the projectile into the case. Fill barrel with you favorite penetrating oil and let it rest a while to deactivate the powder and primer. Next take the appropriate size brass rod and beat the sucker out, while both ends are still pointing in a safe direction. |
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Step one, you have to get the bolt unlocked, since until the carrier comes back to cam the bolt around, all the pounding on the face of the bolt is not going to unlock it.
So on that note, pull down of the charging handle will giving the back of the receiver extension tube a hard blow to the ground. This will at least get the bolt unlocked, and may just end up pulling the round with it. Now, if the bolt unlocks and the round is stuck in the chamber still (ejector slipped of the case rim so the bolt can be locked back), then a single piece cleaning rod, or brass rod just smaller than the ID of the chamber to knock the round out of the chamber (and as Pointed out, 2X4 or something long so you can stay clear of the muzzle). |
| Ive aleady got the barrel off (had to to get the 2nd round that tried to chamber and was lodged as well) . I bought a better rod and some penetrating oil and still no luck strapped in a vise. I'm gonna call it quits as this barrel was just 99$ and Ive wasted more on stupider things without having to worry about safety. Where would be a good place to dispose of this barrel as I dont have any accessible lakes around? |
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Ive aleady got the barrel off (had to to get the 2nd round that tried to chamber and was lodged as well) . I bought a better rod and some penetrating oil and still no luck strapped in a vise. I'm gonna call it quits as this barrel was just 99$ and Ive wasted more on stupider things without having to worry about safety. Where would be a good place to dispose of this barrel as I dont have any accessible lakes around? I'd cut it off in front of the chamber, leaving me a rifled barrel blank I can use for other projects, and bury the chamber stub. |
| So, after soaking in penetrating oil all night it came out this morning. Spent case, not live. Would have banged on it harder at first had I known for sure it wasnt live. Barrel looks ok, but I bought a much nicer barrel yesterday and will be selling this one anyway. Thanks for the input all |
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