22 projectiles stuck in barrel?

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So a buddy hands me an old Anschutz single shot yesterday and asks me how to get a stuck 22 pill out of the barrel. I told him to just use a cleaning rod and push it back down towards the receiver, Then he tells me there is more than one in there, probably around 3. I didn't want to bugger up his rifling so I didn't attempt anything but do any of you guys have any good idea's or is the gun pooched?

Apparently the old boy that gave it to him got the bullet stuck in the barrel and just kept shooting and gave it away to my buddy telling him the bolt was buggered and gas was coming out of it, haha.
 
I could see trying to tap ONE out... But @ this point, I think it's a gunsmith job...

Curious what others will suggest!

Cheers
Jay
 
The rifling will be somewhat buggered up as the barrel most likely will have more than one bulge...

you can always heat it up and melt the lead out...

driving the lead out with a flat tipped steel rod can be tried... the steel rod needs to be at least 3/16" but preferably .200" and wrapped with tape every 2 inches.. enough tape to touch the bore and keep the rod centered. The rod should be as short as possible to do the job... lubricate the side the bullets are being driven to.
 
Spray some WD-40 from both ends and use solid cleaning rod to push those out. Chose from wihich side to push visely. Don't demage crown or chamber.
Or once they are lubricated well, you can use Hilti blanks to shoot them out.
 
SIGP2101 said:
Spray some WD-40 from both ends and use solid cleaning rod to push those out. Chose from wihich side to push visely. Don't demage crown or chamber.
Or once they are lubricated well, you can use Hilti blanks to shoot them out.
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If I was going to use Hilti blanks I would for sure use the lightest charges I could get. I always many years ago I saw a Cooey bolt action with a pretty twisted bolt after it was loaded up with a Hilti/Ramset charge and the barrel stuffed with 7-1/2 shot and toilet paper.That gun disappeared and Dad never saw it.
 
billbmcleod said:
If I was going to use Hilti blanks I would for sure use the lightest charges I could get. I always many years ago I saw a Cooey bolt action with a pretty twisted bolt after it was loaded up with a Hilti/Ramset charge and the barrel stuffed with 7-1/2 shot and toilet paper.That gun disappeared and Dad never saw it.
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YES, you got to be careful and have a controlled environment and need to know what you are doing. I would start with .22 starter pistol blanks and measure for movement after each shot. But, this is nothing that wooden dowel of the right size, lots of lube, and light tapping would not solve the problem. The trick is to get it moving and after that is a piece of cake.
 
I have never heard good things about heating it up to melt it out, one time I had a 69A win. like that, I had a old steel cleaning rod, it was nice and smooth, thread where toast,
I cut little saw teeth in the end and cut handle end off and chucked in slow speed small cordless drill and slowly cut the lead out, have to clean the bits out often, after got them cut , used a brass end that is sized to the bore to clean it up, never saw a ring when I was done.
I have seen a couple that where heated, one was a colt SAA 7.5 in, could not clean them up, but never tried mercury
BTW the drilling part was after someone tapped with and swelled them in , it would not move with a rod and big hammer.
 
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Bronze welding filler rod, pound it flat on the end and make a spade type drill out of it. Just takes a couple strokes of a file.

Wrap some tape around the rod, up to fit fairly well in the barrel.

Drill through the bullets, pull the drill to remove the chips frequently.

Pound on the rod end to make it wider. Repeat.

When the bullets in the barrel are thinned out enough, it's not that tough to push the remains out. Or to pull them with a screw silver soldered on the end of a piece of rod.
 
I like the mercury idea but would probably end up hurting myself somehow.

Next time I see him I'll pick the gun up and bring it home and try a couple of these idea's and hopefully keep it serviceable, won't know till I get the lead out for him and have a good look at the bore.

What scares me is how and why did the first stuck bullet stop in the barrel in the first place.
 
Obviously shooting them out didn't work. Close fitting rod and hammer them out. I had a 45 Colt brought to me with 9 in it. I had to drill the center out to relieve the pressure then pound them out. The man is someone who just shouldn't be reloading. He went way below minimum charges. I know I pissed him off because he took it to a gunsmith the next two times. I seem to be less amazed by stupidity as I get older.
 
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