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Squib load...bullet stuck

A piece of a brass rod maybe 6" in length "dropped" down the barrel will usually move a stuck bullet. Never had cause to use one myself but that's what's been said.
And that gizzmo to pump grease down the barrel to dis lodge a bullet? Wonder how long it took to get the ALL grease out?

Did see a guy start to pack up and go home when he had a stuck bullet in a 22.
HOLD ON THERE Pardner. Cleaning rod down the barrel got the bullet unstuck so he could keep on keeping on. :D :D
 

Squib load...bullet stuck​

Seen that a few times from folks using a progressive press. Thanks but NO THANKS. I'll stick with my RCBS Rock Chucker. Light behind and over my right shoulder and in front shining on the block so I can see if EVERY CASE had powder OR not. Works for me.
NEVER had a NO POWDER charge. Have had no primer.
I could tell by the powder running out the bottom of the case. :oops::oops:
 
Someone explain to me how a case with no primer hole, primed and loaded with powder results in the bullet traveling 1/3rd of the way up the barrel when fired.
I'd really like to hear a PLAUSIBLE explanation for that under the circumstances as given.
Still believe it was a substantial undercharge and the powder used doesn't behave well in below minimal charge weights. So it behaved in unpredictable fashion and in this case we have the results of that unpredictability.
 
NorCalMikie said:
A piece of a brass rod maybe 6" in length "dropped" down the barrel will usually move a stuck bullet. Never had cause to use one myself but that's what's been said.
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No, it will not. Not when the bullet is several inches down the bore. Stuck in the leade? Then perhaps yes.
I suppose if you had one of those shitty factory barrels on low priced mass produced rifles then perhaps the bore is .0015" to .002" larger at the muzzle end compared to the breech end. If that were the case, then why did the bullet ever stop to begin with?
I presume we're not discussing such a scenario given the forum. Because those rifles are anything but accurate.

Still want to know how that bullet ever got several inches down the bore with no primer hole in the case.
 
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The primer firing acted like a hammer type bullet puller. Slamed the round forward into the chamber. The bullet jumped crimp & traveled into the barrel.

With no flash hole, had to happen this way?

Brass rods are used to hammer bullets from the bore. The rods must not protude from the muzzle a lot. Think 4" rod protruding from the muzzle. Use many more rods, till bullet exits the chamber.
 
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243winxb said:
The primer firing acted like a hammer type bullet puller. Slamed the round forward into the chamber. The bullet jumped crimp & traveled into the barrel.

With no flash hole, had to happen this way?
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Drive a jacketed bullet several inches down a barrel. Tell me how a primer did that, when it's rare for the bullet to even leave the case if there's no power charge and an open flash-hole.
If someone wants to intentionally plug a primer hole and seat a bullet and duplicate this 'experiment', more power to you. I personally am not interested.
 
The loaded round neck diameter is smaller than the inside of the chamber, so when the primer fired gases escaped between the neck and the bullet as the neck expanded to the size of the chamber wall, eventually moving the bullet forward.
 
And how exactly did the case become pressurized to expand the neck with no flash hole? Pressure on the case exterior is not going to expand the neck. If anything, it would do the opposite. Notice where the bullet is in the image in post #4?
Let alone develop enough pressure to drive the bullet several inches down the bore?
 
NorCalMikie said:

Squib load...bullet stuck​

Seen that a few times from folks using a progressive press. Thanks but NO THANKS. I'll stick with my RCBS Rock Chucker. Light behind and over my right shoulder and in front shining on the block so I can see if EVERY CASE had powder OR not. Works for me.
NEVER had a NO POWDER charge. Have had no primer.
I could tell by the powder running out the bottom of the case. :oops::oops:
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Those rounds with no primers tend not to be over pressured and safe in any firearm…. :)
 
oneriver said:
Recently had a squib load at the range... case neck wrinkled, bullet stuck in barrel... turns out the brand new Nosler brass .35 Whelen had No Flash Hole. Trying to contact Nosler was an exercise of frustration, they are not answering any of their numbers and the contact information won't accept my email as valid yet I opened an account with that same address?? What's going on with Nosler anybody know?
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Sounds like there is more to this then being said. Tommy Mc What set the powder off ???? . Primer did not do it ..
 
Fire Dog said:
I have one of those that lives in my range tool box and though I have not needed it myself I have on several occasions been able to help others.
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That happens with most of the tools I pack with me. Rarely need it myself but they get a lot of use on other shooters guns and equipment.
 
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Ok, I had to test this…. 308, 147gr bt fmj, Win LRM, left is newer bronze colored cup in blue box, right is older chrome colored cup in white box.

In the name of safety, I took the rifle out the basement door and pointed at a bank of dirt and warned my wife who was outside that I was going to make a bang.

1st round was old chromo primer. Round on the right.
Loaded length: 2.808
Fired length: 2.818
Sound - the sound of the firing pin dropping, I wasn’t sure the primer had ignited.
Bullet has soot on the boattail.

2nd round was the new bronze primer. Round on the left.
Loaded length: 2.808
Fired length: length of case.
Sound - not even a pop but it could be heard. My wife didn’t notice it 30 feet away.
Bullet was in the rifling about 1/2” and you can see the rifling marks on it.
 
243winxb said:
The primer firing acted like a hammer type bullet puller. Slamed the round forward into the chamber. The bullet jumped crimp & traveled into the barrel.

With no flash hole, had to happen this way?

Brass rods are used to hammer bullets from the bore. The rods must not protude from the muzzle a lot. Think 4" rod protruding from the muzzle. Use many more rods, till bullet exits the chamber.
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A primer doesn’t have that much power.

This doesn’t happen with a flash hole, see my post above.

If there was a pin hole instead of the correct flash hole that allowed enough of the primer ignition through to burn any of the powder, the case wouldn’t be wrinkled, if would be a squib load shoving the bullet into the barrel, and, that wouldn’t cause rim damage.

And the case is awfully clean for such a “violent” reaction in the chamber.

The picture doesn’t match the story or the story doesn’t match the picture, take your pick.
 
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