Well, your the expert.
Please explain to me how a steel casing scratching your chamber is any worse than scratching up the rifling in your barrel with a steel rod.
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Please explain to me how a steel casing scratching your chamber is any worse than scratching up the rifling in your barrel with a steel rod.
While I don't shoot steel case ammo, I have friends/family that do and have had to both morter cases out and perform "surgery'.
Remove upper from lower, remove BCG.
Spray, some Break Free. Kroil or PB Blaster down the business end. Drink a beer while you wait ten minutes for the penetrating oil to go to work and then use a solid brass rod and smack the case out backwards.
I have seen some very stuck cases that mortaring wouldn't remove but the brass rod/lube trick works every time. The extractor likely tore the lip of the case off and mortaring won't work for that.
Similar to the below video.
Remove upper from lower, remove BCG.
Spray, some Break Free. Kroil or PB Blaster down the business end. Drink a beer while you wait ten minutes for the penetrating oil to go to work and then use a solid brass rod and smack the case out backwards.
I have seen some very stuck cases that mortaring wouldn't remove but the brass rod/lube trick works every time. The extractor likely tore the lip of the case off and mortaring won't work for that.
Similar to the below video.
Do you ever mix steel and brass cases? If you do and have never had a jam, you got a unicorn.
He would be unicorn #2. I shoot both out of the same gun. I just try to stay away from heavily coated steel.
Issue resolved.
A 3/16" rod slid right into the barrel, very little wiggle at all. One decent tap with a hammer and it popped right out. The casing had a chunk out of it on the back side, like the extractor tore a piece off.
I did search on what a mortar effort would entail, thought I would try the rod method first though.
I appreciate all the feedback, it helped make this a less stressful repair.
A 3/16" rod slid right into the barrel, very little wiggle at all. One decent tap with a hammer and it popped right out. The casing had a chunk out of it on the back side, like the extractor tore a piece off.
I did search on what a mortar effort would entail, thought I would try the rod method first though.
I appreciate all the feedback, it helped make this a less stressful repair.
#3. I mix steel and brass in the same mags. Never a stuck round.
What barrels are you guys using? My JP barrel doesn't mix at all, neither did the Saturn I had before.
Lol. That could be the answer.
