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Posted: 2/5/2014 8:25:32 AM EDT
I have a stuck piece of brass in my AR pistol chamber and cannot get it out. I have tried the following:
The barrel is now in the freezer and I will try the dental picks and shell extractor again when I get home from work. I'm also going to Lowes at lunch to get some penetrating oil to in case the freezer doesn't work. Is there anything else I can try? I'm considering a broken bolt extractor but worried about damaging the chamber. If I can't get it by Saturday, I'm going to try to hunt down a gunsmith. The only one in my area I knew of is closed now. |
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Assuming the rim hasn't been pulled off the case, "mortar" it:
How To Mortar A Stuck Case Out HTH GSM |
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Assuming the rim hasn't been pulled off the case, "mortar" it: How To Mortar A Stuck Case Out HTH GSM Sorry, forgot to mention that the rim has been torn off. |
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I have a stuck piece of brass in my AR pistol chamber and cannot get it out. I have tried the following:
The barrel is now in the freezer and I will try the dental picks and shell extractor again when I get home from work. I'm also going to Lowes at lunch to get some penetrating oil to in case the freezer doesn't work. Is there anything else I can try? I'm considering a broken bolt extractor but worried about damaging the chamber. If I can't get it by Saturday, I'm going to try to hunt down a gunsmith. The only one in my area I knew of is closed now. Seriously, I hope you aren't trying to force a .40 or .45 bore brush down a 5.56 barrel, trying to remove a brass casing from the chamber. You will have 2 issues on hand if you don't watch it. I once saw a M2 .50 cal barrel come thru the shop where I work. Some idiot, and that's what he was, tried pulling a 12 guage shotgun bore snake thru the .50 barrel instead of using the correct cleaning tools...of course it got stuck. Almost $1,100.00 later, they had a new barrel. We let that 1 soak, and eventually were able to get it out but not without a lot of work. The broke shell extractor should work on it, as I've seen those used on M4's and M249's. Hope this helps! |
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Seriously, I hope you aren't trying to force a .40 or .45 bore brush down a 5.56 barrel, trying to remove a brass casing from the chamber. You will have 2 issues on hand if you don't watch it. I once saw a M2 .50 cal barrel come thru the shop where I work. Some idiot, and that's what he was, tried pulling a 12 guage shotgun bore snake thru the .50 barrel instead of using the correct cleaning tools...of course it got stuck. Almost $1,100.00 later, they had a new barrel. We let that 1 soak, and eventually were able to get it out but not without a lot of work. The broke shell extractor should work on it, as I've seen those used on M4's and M249's. Hope this helps! Quoted:
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I have a stuck piece of brass in my AR pistol chamber and cannot get it out. I have tried the following:
The barrel is now in the freezer and I will try the dental picks and shell extractor again when I get home from work. I'm also going to Lowes at lunch to get some penetrating oil to in case the freezer doesn't work. Is there anything else I can try? I'm considering a broken bolt extractor but worried about damaging the chamber. If I can't get it by Saturday, I'm going to try to hunt down a gunsmith. The only one in my area I knew of is closed now. Seriously, I hope you aren't trying to force a .40 or .45 bore brush down a 5.56 barrel, trying to remove a brass casing from the chamber. You will have 2 issues on hand if you don't watch it. I once saw a M2 .50 cal barrel come thru the shop where I work. Some idiot, and that's what he was, tried pulling a 12 guage shotgun bore snake thru the .50 barrel instead of using the correct cleaning tools...of course it got stuck. Almost $1,100.00 later, they had a new barrel. We let that 1 soak, and eventually were able to get it out but not without a lot of work. The broke shell extractor should work on it, as I've seen those used on M4's and M249's. Hope this helps! Brushes never went down the barrel. Just far enough in to grab the case. I soaked the chamber in pb blaster and was able to get the shell out with a dental pick. I was glad to see the chamber is fine. I was a little worried about something being wrong since I couldn't get the brass out. |
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A 308 brush works better for pulling a spent case than a 40 or 45 brush does.
With the wider brushes, the pull back angle of the brushes are too steep, and you don't get the same bite of the end of bristles into the inside for the separated case that you will with the smaller 308 brush (all about the angle of attack so the end of the bristles get the best bite while being reversed pulled back out in the case). The 44 or 45 brush is used for 308 separated cases instead. |
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A 308 brush works better for pulling a spent case than a 40 or 45 brush does. With the wider brushes, the pull back angle of the brushes are too steep, and you don't get the same bite of the end of bristles into the inside for the separated case that you will with the smaller 308 brush (all about the angle of attack so the end of the bristles get the best bite while being reversed pulled back out in the case). The 44 or 45 brush is used for 308 separated cases instead. ok, i'm confuse how the hell do u use a brush to PULL a shell out? |
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Drop the single piece steel cleaning rod down the muzzle and out the back of the upper receiver (through the separated case stuck in the chamber). Screw on the correct size brush (just a tad bit larger than the ID of the separated brass), and pull the brush back in the split case until you get the threaded end of the brush to the shoulder area of the case. Bristles of the brush are now angled towards the back side of the receiver in the separated brass, and all it takes is a good hand blow to the cleaning handle to drive the rod back toward the back of the receiver , and with the brush bristles now angled back inside the brass biting into the ID of the case as it being driving back, which drives the separated brass back out of the chamber with the brush.
It's all about the angle of the bristles of the brush, and you want them be at the point that they just a tad more than short of standing straight up, which gives them the best bit into the inside of the separated brass, but not able to spring back the other way as the brush is being driven back out the back with the case in tow. The 40 and 45 brushes are too large for 223 case, since these brush bristles don't get into the needed angle to get a good bite on the inside off the case since the brushes are too large to start with (angle of the bristles too steep bent back to get a good bite). And yes, you have just cooked a brush, so don't even bother trying to pull it out of the separated case now that you have the works out the back end of the upper. Just spin the brush/separated case off the cleaning rod and throw them away. |
| I had a case with the whole rim end of the case broke off in a 30-30 Winchester once. Nothing worked until I used a tap that fit the case ID, I started it into the case and turned it until I got a bite. Then I used a cleaning rod down the bore and against the end of the tap and the case came out with the tap. That case was really stuck. Worked for me. PK |
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Like barbs. They brush goes in, but the bristles are still pointed rearward. When you pull, bristles poke into brass. .. unless you first drill a hole in said brass how would you get said barbs into said brass...is their a primer, adn primer seat in teh way, and isn't 4.0 buss far to large to get to it from the barrel end oh, i see this is far if some of the brass completely separates from the "bototm" of the brass, didn't understand that, though it was a entire case stuck in chamber. |
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