browning nb
Regular
- Location
- Riverview nb canada
Use a wooden hardwood dowel and wd 40 and it will come out with a couple of easy taps
Removing Squib
- Thread starter maka
- Start date
blacksmithden
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I later discovered that about 1 out of 5 times the press cycled, the autodisk wouldn't retract far enough to let powder drop. I'd added extra springs and changed the bloody chain more times than I could count. It got worse and worse over time and eventually it wouldn't retract at all. I tried a few things but is just kept jamming. I retired it after that and eventually sold it. Good bye and good riddance.
Yup, using a progressive, a guy has gotta find a point at which he can visually inspect the powder charge and the bullet alignment/seating for each case. Goes a lot slower, but saves the waste of time loading a few hundred, travelling to a match, paying entry fees, hotel, gas, and meals, and blowing a match for a squib. Or, missing a freezer full of meat, or other, more serious consequences of failure to charge!
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
I have removed dozens of stuck pistol bullets by filling the barrel behind the bullet with water and firing a primer only behind it. Only occasionally, and then it was with jacketed bullets, it would require more than one try. It never ringed any of my thin .45 auto barrels. Water is not compressible, and the pressure created from the primer is mild so there is no way the barrel could be damaged, where as when a bullet is driven out with a brass rod, where I assume that the muzzle is placed on some sort of hard surface or if pounding the bullet towards the chamber could be exposed to an errant hammer blow, the crown could be damaged. Water and a primer is safe, fast, and easy.
I made a squib rod. Bought a piece of brass and cut a little bit out of the center of it on a lathe. Bought a big wood ball (think it was for a fence post cap) drilled a hole in the ball and epoxied it in. Works like a charm and don't have to hammer on it.
