Posted: 3/2/2008 3:29:23 PM EDT
| well i'm cleaning my AR and a patch came loose and is now stuck in the bore blocking it entirely and i can't get it out so WTF do i do to get this damn thing out |
Yeah. That. If you don't have a blank, you can remove the bullet from a round without a great deal of work. Just mash the bullet sideways against a tabletop several times from different angles and it'll loosen up in the neck. Toss the bullet, dump the powder, load the primed empty shell up, (adjust the case neck if needed so the shell chambers) and pop it. It should move the patch. CJ |
Does that really work? |
| Don't try to force it the way it was going, you'll just stick it more. But really... Push harder. For practice, get a .50 cal muzzleloader and put pyrodex in it that has been exposed to moisture. When it misfires and after you try a new cap, realize that you don't have any Co2 cartridges for the blower and have to get the little screw top for the work rod and then you have to yank the ball out. That's good practice. |
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When I was about 13, my Dad agreed to let me take his M700 Varmint Express deer hunting. We had just gotten out of the truck, I loaded up and tried to chamber a round. No go. It would get about half an inch or so from being closed, and wouldn't go any further. So, I unload the rifle and pull the bolt. There was a big chunk of something sticking down into the bore, right in front of the chamber. My Dad was convinced that I had somehow pried the ends of one of the rifling lands loose when loading the rifle, and it was obstructing the bore. He was severely pissed off. We get home, and run a brass cleaning rod down the bore from the muzzle end. Out pops a mangled-up patch that was left in the barrel after he had cleaned it a couple months before. 
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