Jammed Model 12

Tony Gauthier

Tony Gauthier

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A fellow brought me a winchester model 12 20 ga. that he fired one of those aluminum base shells in. It jammed tight and won't extract. I have the trigger group out and holding firing pin in can't pound the shell out. I tried to pop the extractor over the lip of the case but can't get it back far enough to clear the lip. Any suggestions????
 
With the trigger group out hold the shot gun in a vice so you can pull back hard on the forend while tapping hard with a long rod though the barrel against the fired shell... use a heavy rod that will not break... you may have to use a long 1/2 inch dowel and smack it with a hammer.

If you are pulling back on the slide it is supposed to open with the trigger group out... you don't need to hold the firing pin ahead...

tapping it out with a rod prevents damage to the extractor group...
 
Two other things you can try, first one works on old REMINGTON model 10's , bump the butt stock on the floor, not really hard or hard enough to do damage, but a good bump. I did this on a Model 10 Remington, it seems some guns need the recoil to unlock. The other trick that might work ,is to work the fore arm forward hard , then hard back. It may have been fired without holding the forearm hard forward and maybe being loose it jammed up. None of these are hard to do and if they don't unlock it, your not out anything. GOOD LUCK.
 
i had a guy bring in a rem 7600 .30-06. it was the same way. shell had split when it was fired. he tried what bearman said to do while he was hunting. he slammed the stock on a rock while pulling back on the forend. he didn't move the shell, but he broke the toe off the stock. since the stock was broke anyway, i slammed down on a 2 x4 , and like bearman said , it worked.
 
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