"Can you remove a bullet from my 686?"

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Just came across this post on a thread on "Squib loads" on the S&W Forum. (I guess it could also go in the Reloading section)

I had a costumer call me and asked if I could remove a bullet from his 686. I told him to drop it and I’d take a look.

This is what I found.

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Couldn’t explain to him how lucky he was and asked him how he could get 11 bullets stuck in the barrel and he said he didn’t realize there was that many.
He bought it used and someone had backed off the strain screw trying to lessen the trigger, so he was getting lite stricks and just keep pulling the trigger. But the lesson here is he didn’t check for powder when he was reloading.
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rosconow said:
Instead of enhanced background checks, maybe a simple iq test should be included in getting a PAL.
Just sayin...
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Well, this one was in the US, so no PAL down there. But someone commented, "Some people just shouldn't be allowed to have firearms. Or breed."
 
Speer had a similar pic back in the 80's with a pile of bullets lodged in a .357 Dan Wesson.No damage to the gun!
 
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Is that caused by just a primer with no powder?

While I'd be worried about the safety of the barrel, I'm sure you could drill them out. It would be onerous. You'd have to be careful to protect the rifling. Probably need to rig up some sort of piloted drill that protects the rifling.
 
hawk223 said:
Is that caused by just a primer with no powder?

While I'd be worried about the safety of the barrel, I'm sure you could drill them out. It would be onerous. You'd have to be careful to protect the rifling. Probably need to rig up some sort of piloted drill that protects the rifling.
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Having "been there, done that", the answer to both is "yes." In my case it was two very light "mouse fart" loads stuck part way down the barrel in a Model 19 (Don't ask, OK?). There was no damage to the barrel and I was able to rig up both a muzzle guide and a collar for the bit and use a long 3/16" drill, which weakened the bullets enough that I was able to drive them out with a brass rod. It was it nerve-wracking.
 
The most I've ever had to remove from a barrel was three slugs. I used a 20 T hyd press with a home made jig to hold the barrel in position and then used a sleeve with a little tape around it to protect the rifling and then inserted a "push rod" inside the sleeve. The push was never on the sleeve, always just on the rod (the sleeve just followed the slugs as they moved) and it worked well...I would suspect it would work on any of the photo's shown with a long string of slugs, The rifling is already engraved & 20 T should easily push them out.
 
A friend came by one day on the way home from the range, with his mod. 28 Smith. He said the cylinder would not turn and he could not open it , asked me if I could take a look at it. Well as it turned out we pulled 5 bullets out of the barrel . The last one was half way in the cylinder and half in the barrel , which caused the malfuntion. A long #10 wood screw wraped with electrical tape in a vice and a bit of tapping on the end of the barrel with a soft face hammer to git them started , and out they came.
We assume the first one was likely a squib and the rest just piled up behind. They were light lead bullet loads and the strength of the Mod 28 resulted in no damage detectable. He is still shooting the gun today ,about 10 years later.
And Sooke_69 is right, my friend does not allways hit the target. LOL.
 
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