Taking out a squib, the explosive way.

bush1 said:
Yep, had one last week and 2 light taps and it dropped out.
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That's been my experience with both lead and jacketed. Easy to back them out the opposite direction they got there. No harm, no foul apart from the ribbing from the RO about my reload.
 
sulisa said:
Likewise, in a muzzle loader, they say to ensure the projectile is seated firmly onto the powder charge, with no air gaps...

How much is liability warning, and how much is real... who knows.
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Smokless powder and black powder behave completely different from one another. With black powder, yes, the projectile MUST be seated firmly on the powder charge with no air gap or you make be shooting a pipe bomb. This is absolutly not the case with smokeless powder, there are countless safe loads that have a very small volume of powder in the case compared to the air space, sometimes the air space takes up 80% of the volume of the case or more requiring a light filler to keep the powder charge at the primer.
 
That's a lot of stuff to try to stuff into my range bag. :rolleyes:

Or one should carry a squib rod or dowel in their range bag for such occasions.
 
This is another case of something that is proven to be safe, but is out of the comfort zone (understanding) of some. Rather than just choose not to do it themselves, they are compelled to pronounce it unsafe, throwing whatever "logic and facts" at it that they think will stick. Eventually it comes down to them using the "It's your face" statement, the "Godwin's Law" of the Shooting Sports.
 
I have used the Ganderite method to clear a bullet stuck in the throat of a .308. Situation is little different than a bullet seated out to touch the leade.

Dowels have been mentioned a number of times.
I would suggest keeping dowels well away from the barrel of a firearm. If a rod is needed to clear an obstruction, or a stuck bullet from a squib load, a proper fitting metal rod is the way to go.
 
When you think about it its not really different than older rifle grenade launcher where you had to use a blank round to propel the grenade which sits at the muzzle. It works.
 
Do not try this at home warning!!!!

I dry balled my 50cal Hawken one time. Not having a ball worm, I took it home to reflect on the situation.

When I got home the light bulb came on... remove the nipple and put just a smidge of fff under the nipple, that should do it!

I let loose at the basement wall (approx. 20' away) thinking this ain't going any where.

WRONG!!!

That 50cal ball breached fiber board panelling and embedded it self 1/8" into a 2X4 spacer.

Was lucky it didn't hit concrete and come straight back at me!

M
 
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