22lr barrel jam! Help appreciated.

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Brendan-Neustaeter

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So I have a Taurus 22 lr revoler that I just got from the EE.
Great shape, works like a charm.
But I was at the range today with my mother, my older sister, and her two kids. Second time I've had it out.
So my sister was shooting it and I was letting/making her load the cylinder herself. She said the one round went in a little tight, but I figured since she is new to guns (I taught her how to shoot for the first time about two weeks ago.) she was just being a little paranoid. But she fired that round first and it made the weirdest squeaking noise, so I unload the cylinder and check the chamber and see nothing, look at the muzzle and I find this.
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Any suggestions on how to fix that?
 
Hammer it out with a small wood dowel, will be a little tuff in a revolver. A long wood dowel should be able to bend past the frame and into the barrel and then just bang it out, wood will not hurt the barrel.
 
Winnipeg Toymaker said:
Use a screw and carefully twist it into the lead and pull it out. You may have to drill a pilot hole thru the lead
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If the above won't work, tap it back down the barrel the way it came with a steel rod wrapped in tape. Be careful of the crown.

Don't use wood, bad idea. Don't try to force/bend something past the frame into the barrel from the cylinder end.

It will tap back down the barrel quite easily if you can't pull it out with a screw. The screw may tend to wedge the bullet more tightly against the barrel.
 
Heat it up with a cutting torch and melt it out.:) I've driven bullets back down revolver barrels before with a rod.
 
Use a small wood screw and a claw hammer.Easy....................It's only soft lead..................seen a pic of a Dan Wesson .357 mag with 9 bullets in the barrel and no damage! One that started it all had a primer with no powder............Harold
 
Its only a couple of days since someone posted about jamming a wooden down in their barrel. With a dowel small enough to fit in a 22 barrel, I would say your odds are infinitely greater of jamming/breaking the dowel.
Do as guntech suggested in the previous thread and use a steel rod wrapped with tape; he is a professional and very skilled gunsmith.

cheers mooncoon
 
Don't even think about melting it. That'll just give you more problems. Barrel into padded vise and use a brass rod and a plastic mallet to take it out.
 
Sounds like it was an out of spec bullet that got jammed into the case. That would explain why it was tight going into the cylinder chamber as well.

I bought a brick of .22 AE a while back and it is such poor stuff I seriously doubt I'll buy anything AE in the future if I can avoid it. Even using it in my bolt action rifle and my own revolver I'm noticing huge recoil differences to the point I'm surprised I haven't stuck one in the barrel myself. I've even had trouble with their 9mm although I'm not sure if it's the loads or the weight of the bullets causing the issue.
 
Brendan-Neustaeter said:
I thought the same thing, but it was cheap and I thought it might at least make it out of the barrel! lol
I don't really want to use high grade ammo when teaching people how to shoot and supplying ammo for groups of other people.
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I had great results with both Winchester Wildcat and CCI Blazer in guns that worked with it. Both of those were far more consistent to where I do not remember actually noticing any difference I could feel for the entire brick's worth. And both are pretty cheap.

Oh, I've got a High Standard Double nine. Gotta love those .22 revolvers. Your Taurus looks mighty fine.

If you have trouble getting the spot out where it stuck try some copper dissolving solution. Since it jammed to a halt it may have friction burned the copper or even some of the lead to the surface of the barrel. If the copper treatment doesn't do the job try the lead dissolving stuff and THEN the copper stuff. If it's still lumpy looking the darn bullet may have galled the metal in which case a trip so someone that knows their stuff for a bit of lapping out or some other treatment to smoothen the damage may be in order. Or it may be time to shorten it closer to barely restricted.... :D Hopefully there's nothing wrong with the bore though.
 
Federal American Eagle .22LR has produced a few 100 - various X's (UP TO 10X !!!) for members of Dauphin Junior Rifle Club over the winter with only a few FTFs. Two bricks of Win T22 this spring have also produced some 100's BUT there have also been 15 - 20 fail to chamber due to extremely poor quality control - excess lead extending down onto the case / bullet not seated deeply enough, all this at a price thats 50% more than the AE! Kayceel
 
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