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Posted: 9/5/2014 12:25:30 PM EDT
So..... had my first and hopefully last squib last night  It took a while to get it out but I was under prepared from a tool standpoint. I ended up using a wooden dowel but would rather use brass in the future. Is there a commercial product being sold as a squib rod? I cant find one anywhere.
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For anyone that has had a squib and had to clear it, what was the best way you found? brass rod? dowel? what diameter for 5.56/.223? thinking about putting one in my box just in case. Go to Home Depot or Lowes and get a wood dowel...I would say 4mm to 4.5mm would do it. I am getting one as soon as the next time I'm near one of those places. |
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Is there a commercial product being sold as a squib rod? I cant find one anywhere. Otis sells what they call a barrel obstruction remover which can be screwed onto the end of a brass cleaning rod. It's just a little concave bullet tip shaped brass piece. They come in some of the kits but I think you can order them individually on the Otis website. |
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Ok...most likely a dumb question but...which way should you try to knock a squib out? muzzle to chamber or other way? Does it matter?? I am no expert but I would never try and push something through my rifle in the opposite way it was intended to travel. Seems like a good way to cause damage |
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I am no expert but I would never try and push something through my rifle in the opposite way it was intended to travel. Seems like a good way to cause damage Quoted:
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Ok...most likely a dumb question but...which way should you try to knock a squib out? muzzle to chamber or other way? Does it matter?? I am no expert but I would never try and push something through my rifle in the opposite way it was intended to travel. Seems like a good way to cause damage Well that's what I was thinking but then I thought shouldn't it be pushed in the direction that is the shortest way out. For example if it is stuck right past the chamber why would you try and shove it all the way down the bore and out the muzzle? Would there be the possibility of damaging the bore? |
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I am no expert but I would never try and push something through my rifle in the opposite way it was intended to travel. Seems like a good way to cause damage Quoted:
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Ok...most likely a dumb question but...which way should you try to knock a squib out? muzzle to chamber or other way? Does it matter?? I am no expert but I would never try and push something through my rifle in the opposite way it was intended to travel. Seems like a good way to cause damage How? Soft bullet. Hard barrel. Besides, you knocking it out is at a slightly slower velocity and under less pressure/force than when firing. |
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With age comes the wisdom of where not to use it. Quoted:
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Shortest way out. I would not use wood. But what if you already have wood?  With age comes the wisdom of where not to use it. It's called thinking with your big head, not the small one. Be very careful with a wooden dowel to drive the bullet out. If the wood splits on the tip of the bullet, as you try to drive the bullet out you actually wedge wood between the bullet and the rifling making it even more stuck. |
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^^^^ This. Using a blank load in a gun with a bullet stuck in the barrel is essentially equivalent to making a pipe bomb out of your rifle. I've never really understood why that is. We used clearing charges to push out squib projectiles on 5 inch naval guns. |
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I've never really understood why that is. We used clearing charges to push out squib projectiles on 5 inch naval guns. Quoted:
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^^^^ This. Using a blank load in a gun with a bullet stuck in the barrel is essentially equivalent to making a pipe bomb out of your rifle. I've never really understood why that is. We used clearing charges to push out squib projectiles on 5 inch naval guns. Different powder in the blanks to help them cycle the action. |
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I've never really understood why that is. We used clearing charges to push out squib projectiles on 5 inch naval guns. Quoted:
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^^^^ This. Using a blank load in a gun with a bullet stuck in the barrel is essentially equivalent to making a pipe bomb out of your rifle. I've never really understood why that is. We used clearing charges to push out squib projectiles on 5 inch naval guns. much stronger barrel (proportionally) I'd use wood, from the tail of the bullet moving forward out of the front of the barrel. light taps get the job done. |
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I've never really understood why that is. We used clearing charges to push out squib projectiles on 5 inch naval guns. Quoted:
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^^^^ This. Using a blank load in a gun with a bullet stuck in the barrel is essentially equivalent to making a pipe bomb out of your rifle. I've never really understood why that is. We used clearing charges to push out squib projectiles on 5 inch naval guns. Seems like I remember Gen. Hatcher (Hatcher's Notebook) discuss using a cartridge with no round in the case mouth to push a stuck bullet out of the chamber in 03's at matches. My memory could be incorrect. I need to read those two books again (Hatcher's Notebook and Hatcher's Book of the Garand = great books). |
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