Any tips on getting to forward 80% or so of a separated case out of the chamber of my Jungle Carbine? Almost always a simple scribe or similar tool can be used to extract them but not this time. The casing is basically glued to the chamber it seems. The is no lip either side to push on, I imagine those purpose built extractors would do nicely but I can't find one.
Stuck Case, .303 British Case Separation
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saltednutz
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- God's Country ᐋᕘᑕ
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X2 about half way in the broken case.
- Location
- Edmonton Area Ab, Candle Lake Sk
Plug the mouth of the case. Pour cerrosafe in the chamber . Let it harden. Pound out with cleaning rod.
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357
- Location
- Central AB
You could use an appropriate size tap, screw it in, and then tap out with a rod.
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- Iroquois Falls ON
A thread tap with an extension has worked for me every time. Maybe I'm just lucky but I have never had to use a hammer, just turn it by hand an the case has always loosened and pulled right out. Used it more than a dozen times (3 times on the same gun before I convinced the guns owner to get some new brass,,, LOL)
Removed stuck cases several times with no damage to gun in less than a minute. Remove bolt , insert a socket where the bolt was with an appropriate sized lag screw into the chamber.It must be large enough to enter the case but bite into the shoulder neck area of the stuck case.Give it 1/4 turn till you feel it bite into the brass,remove socket leaving lag screw in stuck case.A wooden block or non-marring object is placed by hand in the action to pry against to protect the action. Use a screw driver under the lag screw head to gently pry away from the chamber. it's out in less time it took to type this............Harold
In my forty -plus years of gunsmithing professionally, I have removed dozens of separated cases with a cleaning brush and have seen at least a dozen rifles in which the chambers had been damaged with a tap or a drill bit. A tap can do the job if the case is stuck but trust me, try the brush first.
This, minus the cleaning rod... Would use a brass rod, smaller then the bore with tape around it to make it a better fit.
This has been my experience as well... chambers are easily damaged by the inexperienced inserting sharp tooling.
and if a brush doesn't work I have plugged the neck of the case and put epoxy in the body of the case and when hard simply tapped the case out with a cleaning rod...
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- pallisers triangle
you know, 303 is the easiest rifle to remove a stuck separated case from because its tapered, just load another round and push the bolt home fairly hard. it will push the new round into the rear of the stuck case and jam in now simply extract both works 99 out of 100. ive don't it lots.
in a 38 cal rifle, I have used a brass rod to push a lead slug down the bore, from the muzzle. Works and does not damage the bore or the chamber. The Cerrosafe method sounds like it has potential but you need to have some Cerrosafe to do it
cheers mooncoon
cheers mooncoon
My loading has caught up with me I think. I have gone hundreds of rounds without any issues since inheriting the gun but last time out I had 2 separations and 2 that nearly separated. Neck sizing helps extend brass life but apparently not forever unfortunately. It also doesn't help that some of the brass I scrounged up was obviously fired from rifles much looser than mine. I don't have any cerro safe but I do have epoxy. I will plug and put some into the case body then try tapping it out.
It does require a certain amt of finesse with the lag screw approach,I wasn't talking about a back woods caveman approach .The chamber will be unscathed if you have the touch.The screw threads only contact the inside of the brass .....nothing else.Cleaning rod and brush was NFG as well as jam and ram another rd in the chamber. I happened mostly on a Savage 340 .22 with a sloppy chamber /weak extraction with moderate loads.
