How do you remove a squib from the barrel?

[ccasanova]

Was shooting my Tikka Tactical .223 and it went pfft instead of boom. Factory loads, not reloads. There’s a 55gr Vmax stuck in the barrel.

How do I remove it without damaging the barrel? I have no cleaning rod or anything else except a carbon arrow and coat hanger. Figured those wouldn’t be wise. So what do I need? Thanks

 

[brianf]

home depot wood dowel for 1$

 

[MarinePMI]

Where in the barrel is it stuck? Breech? Near the muzzle?

 

[Boon20]

Was shooting my Tikka Tactical .223 and it went pfft instead of boom. Factory loads, not reloads. There’s a 55gr Vmax stuck in the barrel.

How do I remove it without damaging the barrel? I have no cleaning rod or anything else except a carbon arrow and coat hanger. Figured those wouldn’t be wise. So what do I need? Thanks

My best guess is find a cleaning rod without a jag very important and be gentle putting it in the barrel with any luck its not in very far.

 

[MK20]

push it out. I have done this before. Buy a cleaning rod.

 

[spife7980]

I would avoid carbon altogether but if you do use the carbon arrow, I would only push on the base of the bullet assuming its a flat base bullet. I think there are plenty of old members who remember when a person using a carbon cleaning rod to push a bullet out from the muzzle end and it splintered radially and wedged itself between the bullet and the barrel taking it from stuck to super fucking stuck. They ended up putting a pipe fitting on the muzzle threads and uses hydraulics/pneumatic to force it out.

Use a steel cleaning rid or a wooden dowel.

 

[hlee]

A pipe fitting on the threaded muzzle and hydrolics is probably the most fail safe. I believe it was @Gunfighter14e2 that suggested it in another thread...

 

[Spblademaker]

Just did this a few weeks ago. Brass rod from the hardware store , Aerokroil and a hammer.

 

[ccasanova]

home depot wood dowel for 1$

This did the trick. Thanks! Was luckily only an inch or so from the chamber. Few light taps and it backed out.

Should I run a bore snake down it a few times with Hoppes #9? Oil? Or just keep shooting?

I should probably get better cleaning equipment but I don’t shoot high volume and don’t bother cleaning much.

 

[brianf]

give it a quick clean just to be sure

you might have some left over crap in the barrel, wood or jacket material etc

 

[LRI]

The safest way that I've found to do this is to pull the barrel, thread it to a "thingy" with a grease zerk attached on one end, attach a grease gun with some snort, then start pumping...

Hydraulic pressure for the win. Zero risk of nicking the bore this way.

 

[ccasanova]

LRI, I’m thankful this one didn’t come down to that lol! That sounds like a gold standard for a majorly stuck round. If it ever gets that bad I’ll send it to ya.

 

[Fatherdeath]

like many have said just tap it out with a wooden rod from back to front

 

[missed]

The safest way that I've found to do this is to pull the barrel, thread it to a "thingy" with a grease zerk attached on one end, attach a grease gun with some snort, then start pumping...

Hydraulic pressure for the win. Zero risk of nicking the bore this way.

My preferred method also. Works great for removing bore snakes also.

 

[260284]

Buy a bore guide and a good cleaning rod and throw away the bore snake.

 

[Edsel]

The safest way that I've found to do this is to pull the barrel, thread it to a "thingy" with a grease zerk attached on one end, attach a grease gun with some snort, then start pumping...

Hydraulic pressure for the win. Zero risk of nicking the bore this way.

I remember seeing somebody do this with either a 1/2-28 or 5/8-24 muzzle adapter with a zerk at the end.

I think it was from a thread from the first incarnation of the hide.

It’ll be nice if they sold such fittings

In a bolt action, would a handloaded blank with a small charge of slow - burning powder have the potential to cause damage?

I did this myself once, with a quarter - filled (IMR 4064) .308 Winchester case plugged with cotton. The report sounded like a very mild, suppressed “pop.”

There was another recent thread which suggested that this was a bad idea, however.

 

[mcfred]

 

[want2learn]

here's another video that shows a nice example of a grease gun fitting for this purpose....would sure be nice to have one or be able to make one.

 

[Edsel]

here's another video that shows a nice example of a grease gun fitting for this purpose....would sure be nice to have one or be able to make one.

That's the one

 

[AIAW]

I had an instance a while back where a buddy had a bullet stuck nearly half-way down a 28” 300WM. He tried knocking it out to no avail. I told him to bring it over. It was a SMK (not a solid or anything).

My idea what’s to use an old lab laser that I had laying around to melt the lead out of it and then just tap out the jacket. Took a little bit after aiming it down the bore (not a super powerful laser), but sure enough the lead poured out. The jacket then tapped out relatively easily.

So yeah, old lab laser, time, zero damage.

Strange - yes. Works - yes.

Shouldn’t have put that much heat into the barrel, not enough to matter given the melting temperature of lead.