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jterry
I have a quite new rifle. I have had it out twice. A friend was shooting it and had a problem -- couldn't get a shell seated.

I couldn't either, so I put it away and brought it home. In looking at it, it had a cartridge stuck in the chamber. The back of the cartridge is gone, but the rest of the casing is stuck in the barrel/chamber. How does one get this out? Should I take it to the gunsmith? Thanks in advance for your help.


Joe Terry
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  • cpermd
    If you are lucky you have a broken case extracter for it.
    I am doubting it though.
    Take it and the ammo you were using to a gunsmith.
    What gun and caliber?
    What ammunition?
    cpermd
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  • jterry
    The rifle is a Savage 10FP .223 caliber.
    Ammunition was Remington.
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  • thunderbolt
    Take it to a gunsmith. These things can be difficult enough to extract without additional damage done by gouging the brass and scratching the barrel.
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  • J.L. Hood
    jterry--thunderbolt has got it right. If you don't have a broken case extractor take it to a gunsmith. It's not too hard to do if you've got the right tools but home remedies can bugger up chambers and you don't want to do that! If you do gouge or damage the chamber you are looking at some expensive barrel work.
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  • BT99
    You may want to try one thing that I have used many times wen I was
    a full time gunsmith. Take your cleaning rod, with nothing attached to it. Sart it in from the muzzle and run it passed the chamber to a point where you can screw a 30 caliber bronze brush on it. Now, pull it back into the chamber to the point where the brush is inside the
    brass that is in the chamber. At this point the bristles on the brush will be bent backwards. Now bump the cleaning rod with the palm of your hand to push the brass out of the chamber.
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  • JustC
    If you can find a dowel rod that is almost the exact size as the bore, it will hit the "lip" of the casing when you feed it down the barrel. Rest it on the casing and smack it with a rubber mallet or hammer. The soft wood will not damage the rifling at all. It's a $1.50 remedy that is worth a try, if it doesn't work, your not out anything.

    A great rifle with a junk scope,....is junk.
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  • Nighthawk
    If i understanding you right[Bt99] give you the right info.Your not saying the extractor is broken but the rim of the hull. If you hand load your own ammo you need to lighten the loads or you had a hull that had been reloaded to many times. If this is not the case I would call the factory, and explain what happened to your gun. they will probably recommend you send it to them.

    Good Luck.

    Rugster

    Edited by - rugster on 05/27/2002 10:17:35
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