Epicurean
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So I had this issue the other day:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...h-leading-to-a-question.862314/#post-11365481
As paranoid as I was, one got by me and I had a squib yesterday. It was stuck about 1/2" past the forcing cone in a major way. Years ago, when I first started reloading, I had a squib and it drove out with an old brass cleaning rod and a couple of good whacks. The one yesterday would not budge; I mushroomed a cleaning rod wailing away at it. I sprayed some penetrating oil to no avail. Part of the problem, as luck would have it, was it was a 148 gr coated WC without the lube groove; so it had a lot of contact area with the barrel. It was also 16 BHN. I think those two attributes combined to make this amazingly ornery. It just would not budge. I was tempted to take a sledge to it but didn't have a padded vise to secure the gun.
I researched the web and You Tube and everyone showed the bullet dislodging with a few handsome whacks; I finally found one thread with a similar predicament to mine, a bullet that wouldn't move. I tried what this gentleman did which was to put the gun in the freezer over night. This morning one good whack and the projectile popped out! The cold either shrunk the bullet or hardened it or both. Easy peasy.
Just thought I'd pass this along in case someone else has a brain cramp and sticks one really bad.
PS It's reorder time. Can someone PM me MBC code?
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...h-leading-to-a-question.862314/#post-11365481
As paranoid as I was, one got by me and I had a squib yesterday. It was stuck about 1/2" past the forcing cone in a major way. Years ago, when I first started reloading, I had a squib and it drove out with an old brass cleaning rod and a couple of good whacks. The one yesterday would not budge; I mushroomed a cleaning rod wailing away at it. I sprayed some penetrating oil to no avail. Part of the problem, as luck would have it, was it was a 148 gr coated WC without the lube groove; so it had a lot of contact area with the barrel. It was also 16 BHN. I think those two attributes combined to make this amazingly ornery. It just would not budge. I was tempted to take a sledge to it but didn't have a padded vise to secure the gun.
I researched the web and You Tube and everyone showed the bullet dislodging with a few handsome whacks; I finally found one thread with a similar predicament to mine, a bullet that wouldn't move. I tried what this gentleman did which was to put the gun in the freezer over night. This morning one good whack and the projectile popped out! The cold either shrunk the bullet or hardened it or both. Easy peasy.
Just thought I'd pass this along in case someone else has a brain cramp and sticks one really bad.
PS It's reorder time. Can someone PM me MBC code?
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