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First time at the range since late last fall - having a nice time...

Pew, Pew,Pew, Pffft ..... Wut?

That was odd. Eject the case. Have a sense something's not right - drop the mag - can't really see down the barrel from the breach, but it seems dark, take a peek over the front of the barrel....

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Didn't bring my range kit, so done shooting 22 today.

Anyway, only point of this thread is it doesn't matter if it's factory or homespun - pay attention and be safe.
 
AJC1 said:
Needle nose pliers or a leatherman and your right back in business
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True. But as I posted - didn't bring my range kit, so no tools on hand. My buddy didn't have any tools along either, and we were the only ones at the range this morning.

Throwing a leatherman into my targets bag is a good idea though, since I always bring that.
 
Local hardware store. Display of brass rod material. Brass rod, 1/8 or 3/16 inch will serve as a great tap out rod. The place around me has 36" lengths and shorter lengths. Easy to hacksaw shorter for pistols. Brass being softer than steel will not damage the rifling. (I like the fully threaded rods, even harder to damage rifling.) I carry one in my pistol box all the time.
For larger calibers, 5/16" will fit a .357 bore and is strong enough to knock out .44 and .45 bullets as well. .25" will do .32 caliber, and the .30 bunch. Rifles take a longer rod of course. But I should think 36" will take care of most smokeless guns.
 
Should have added - there was a bit of unburnt powder in the barrel. Very odd. 2 year old ammo that hasn't seen any water or oil, or any other contaminate. Just a bad bit of powder or primer and incomplete ignition.
 
I had what I believe to have been a hot bit of unburnt powder to hit my tear duct. It was cheap bulk 22 ammo shot in a semi-auto. Talk about trying to keep the gun pointed downrange while removing the bit from the corner of the eye. And I was wearing wrap around safety glasses.
 
never seen that before, does seem like a 1 in a million. seems like you'd be able to just grab it and wiggle it out, but yeah - I'd want to run a rod and patch through and give it a look before shooting any more.
 
Probably not much primer in the rim and thus poor combustion. What brand was the ammo? I had a lot of squibs with the older golden bullets.Stay away from them to this day though others have reported better quality in recent years.

I tried to make my 30 Carbine Blackhawk just clear the barrel. But it would stick half way or bury the Lead bullet in two layers of cardboard at 3 YDS without going through..
 
FROGO207 said:
Probably not much primer in the rim and thus poor combustion. What brand was the ammo? I had a lot of squibs with the older golden bullets.Stay away from them to this day though others have reported better quality in recent years.

I tried to make my 30 Carbine Blackhawk just clear the barrel. But it would stick half way or bury the Lead bullet in two layers of cardboard at 3 YDS without going through..
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Or the powder got moisture in it? About 10 years ago, I bought a box of Winchester 555 22 ammo. I found the usual loose bullet that could spin in the case. But I found several that the bullet was partially dislodged from the case.

I worked with a guy that once claimed while out checking his hunting rifle (336/30.30) zero, one shot sounded funny. He didn't see a hole on the target. But looked down and there the bullet laid on the ground in front of him. Now he was quite the talker, so I figured he was full of hot air. But who knows, maybe he was telling it straight. :)
 
FROGO207 said:
Probably not much primer in the rim and thus poor combustion. What brand was the ammo? I had a lot of squibs with the older golden bullets.Stay away from them to this day though others have reported better quality in recent years.

I tried to make my 30 Carbine Blackhawk just clear the barrel. But it would stick half way or bury the Lead bullet in two layers of cardboard at 3 YDS without going through..
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Federal Match. I really like it. But I figure on 1 or 2 failures in a box of 325 rounds. Typically they just don't go bang, but if I clock them 90* or so, they usually will. My standards for affordable 22 aren't that high. But the old Thunderbolts were incredibly disappointing.

My favorite is Aguila subsonic - before it became unaffordable and unobtainium.
 
kcofohio said:
Or the powder got moisture in it? About 10 years ago, I bought a box of Winchester 555 22 ammo. I found the usual loose bullet that could spin in the case. But I found several that the bullet was partially dislodged from the case.

I worked with a guy that once claimed while out checking his hunting rifle (336/30.30) zero, one shot sounded funny. He didn't see a hole on the target. But looked down and there the bullet laid on the ground in front of him. Now he was quite the talker, so I figured he was full of hot air. But who knows, maybe he was telling it straight. :)
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If it did, it was that way from the factory.
 
NMexJim said:
Personally, I'd just grabbed ahold of it and jerked it right out. No worries.
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It was in there pretty tight. I tried pushing it out with an aluminum cleaning rod, but it wasn't going easy, and I didn't want to damage the cleaning rod end. So I used a side cutter to grip it and lever it out the end of the barrel. That was pretty easy and didn't damage anything.
 
Ranger99 said:
JMHO- I would have wanted to run
a patch on a jag down the bore JFG
to make sure everything was strac
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It was due for a cleaning (message sent - message received?). But other than unburnt powder, the bore is fine. Cleaned up easily.
 
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