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    Because there is some chance the bore has not been damaged. If you read the thread, you'd know there is a way to safely extract the stuck round. Then, a bore cleaning and inspection will tell if the barrel is still any good. If not, lesson learned. If it is, then lesson learned and equipment salvaged.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mall_Ninja View Post
    Simple,

    Dig a hole in the ground in a safe area.

    Lay the barrel level, down in the hole.

    Add your favorite grill charcoal (Kingsford for me) light it from a distance and sit back and wait a few minutes for the kaboom.

    Poor water in the hole to put out the coals and put the dirt you dug the hole with back in the hole.

    Give a short eulogy and walk away...

    Barrels are cheap, glass eye balls and caskets are not, why risk it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by patrick sweeney View Post
    Because there is some chance the bore has not been damaged. If you read the thread, you'd know there is a way to safely extract the stuck round. Then, a bore cleaning and inspection will tell if the barrel is still any good. If not, lesson learned. If it is, then lesson learned and equipment salvaged.
    I always read an entire thread before replying. Everyones definition of "safely" is up for debate. Im simply stating that having heard a cleaning rod was broken off trying to push the round out, leaves little chance in my opinion of salvage.

    Little chance of success coupled with high (in my opinion) room for error/injury is a simple math equation...YMMV

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    With the Brownells tool, the risk is so low as to be negligible. Were it not, I wouldn't have used one for decades, and Brownells wouldn't be selling them for decades.

    Barrels can surprise you. And there is more than one way of being certain, besides taking off and nuking the site from orbit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by patrick sweeney View Post
    And there is more than one way of being certain, besides taking off and nuking the site from orbit.
    If I were in Ripleys position, I would have nuked from orbit too...

    That whole risk/reward thing! haha

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    UPDATE!

    Moderators if this is not considered appropriate for general consumption, please delete.

    I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THIS SOLUTION!

    I passed along the barrel to the reloader and he did the following after the barrel had been soaking in Kroil from both ends for about 10 days.

    - Ground down the side of the case in order to drill a small hole into the case to add more Kroil. He let it soak for another couple of days.

    - He then very slowly drilled into the primer with a small diameter bit (He is a fireman so he put on his protective gear just to be safe). At this point he was praying that the primer was dead. The primer did let out a little pop. He said it was about one tenth the power of a full primer.

    - He enlarged the hole and threaded it for a 1/4 bolt. Adding large washers and a nut to the bolt he then inserted the bolt and tightened the nut to slowly pull the bolt and cartridge out.



    - the 2 rod sections fell out, but a piece of the rod where the 2 sections come together remained in the barrel and needed to be tapped out.

    The barrel is now clear. The bullet was forced into the case up to the mark shown in the photo below and the rod was obviously jammed well into the case. The connection where the 2 rods came together failed. Had the first person used a one piece rod it may have forced the cartridge out or maybe not????

    I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND TRYING THIS, I DIDN'T.






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    Nice summary. How is the chamber and barrel?
    Last edited by Ick; 08-13-13 at 22:32.

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    Nice job getting it unstuck. Why did it jam up so and is it now usable?

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    I don't know exactly how it happened as it was not my weapon. The barrel appears usable. The upper will be put back together and tested this weekend.

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    If the Fireman heard a pop when drilling the primer, that tells me that even Kroil won't necessarily completely deactivate a primer.

    Thanks for the information and please let us know how the barrel shoots.

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    That's definitely doing it the hard way.

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