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  • kk365ss

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    I had a round I bought at a gun show ( cause it was pretty cheap ) that stuck in my CZ 75 barrel. I can't tell if the primer fired or not, I'm not a re-loader so I'm not sure. It's indented but not like the ones I fired from the same box.
    Anyway what is the best way to clear the round out of the barrel if it is live?
    Can I drive it back safely?
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    Tap it out with a cleaning rod. If the bullet sets back in the case. All it will do is compress the smokeless powder. Don't strike the case base or primer.

    Spray a bit of WD40 down the muzzle and let sit for a few. Then tap the round out the chamber.
     
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    Once you get it out. Inspect the chamber and extractor. If the chamber is stained from the seizure. Chuck a cleaning rod with brush in a drill. Smear the brush with aluminum wheel cleaner. Run the brush back and forth in the chamber. Trying to keep the brush out the lands. Rinse and inspect again.


    On the extractor. If it's fu¢ked up. Order a new one. It's not worth the effort to fix. If even possible.
     
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    I'd take the barrel out of the gun first. :green:


    It's either tap the slide rearward to rip the extractor off the rim. That's if the round is really stuck.

    Or...

    Next option is to tap the round from the muzzle end also....Pulling the slide back at the same time. As the round moves out the chamber. Any clearance between the firing pin hole, slide face to the primer are maintained. The goal is to keep it from doing an anvil on the slide and blowing your fingers off.
     
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    There's a third option. Take the pistol and stick the top end of the muzzle face of the slide. Put it to the edge of a soft wood bench. Or fence post in the back yard.

    Man push the frame forward with slide anchored against the wood. Give it room for the barrel to come out.

    If you can't rip the extractor off the rim. Use both hands and put some balls to it.
     
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    I'm curious as to why some dummy at a gun show sold a loaded, stuck, pistol. The high water mark for unsafe. Nobody noticed a chambered pistol without a zip tie?

    Was the fat deputy at the door....too fat to check this stuff? This is a donut moment in the wild world of guns.
     

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    I'm curious as to why some dummy at a gun show sold a loaded, stuck, pistol. The high water mark for unsafe. Nobody noticed a chambered pistol without a zip tie?

    Was the fat deputy at the door....too fat to check this stuff? This is a donut moment in the wild world of guns.

    Read again. OP bought reloads or ammo of questionable origin at the gun show because cheap. One of them got stuck in the barrel of his 75.
     
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    Read again. OP bought reloads or ammo of questionable origin at the gun show because cheap. One of them got stuck in the barrel of his 75.

    Thank you 98'. I'm tracking now. I sometimes read too deep or not enough. Everything applies except my rant.
     
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    I'm curious as to why some dummy at a gun show sold a loaded, stuck, pistol. The high water mark for unsafe. Nobody noticed a chambered pistol without a zip tie?

    Was the fat deputy at the door....too fat to check this stuff? This is a donut moment in the wild world of guns.
    Umm...
     

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    Thank you 98'. I'm tracking now. I sometimes read too deep or not enough. Everything applies except my rant.

    Although I do seem to remember having once bought either a complete rifle, or just the action with a bullet stuck in it either at a gun show or in the vicinity. Vice grips, dowel, and a hammer took care of it.
     
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    Although I do seem to remember having once bought either a complete rifle, or just the action with a bullet stuck in it either at a gun show or in the vicinity. Vice grips, dowel, and a hammer took care of it.


    If it comes with a discount. I don't care much to which is stuck in the barrel.

    $$$. Tap that turd out the barrel and drive on.
     

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    It's indented but not like the ones I fired from the same box.
    Anyway what is the best way to clear the round out of the barrel if it is live?

    If you can see the primer from the casing you tried to fire, how can thier be a live round in the barrel? By round do you mean there is a bullet in the bore? Round or cartridge isn't the same thing as a bullet.

    If it is a bullet in the bore, take your barrel off and tap it out from the muzzle end with a wooden dowel. That's a squib, congrats for not being stupid and trying to rack into it and keep shooting. Saved a blown up gun. Take pictures, ask for a refund, and bring it to the manufacturer's attention.

    If the cartridge is stuck in the chamber, rack it out by hand or use pressure on a share object against the slide as described here already.


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    ROGER4314

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    A "squib rod" is what most of us use. It's a lot like a black powder ball starter with a short rod and a ball at the end. The latest squib rods I've seen were in the Dillon catalog.

    I purchased a cartridge gauge for almost everything that I fire. Strangely, I bought a box of .300 Blackout ammo at Academy and one of those factory rounds had a tight fit and refused to enter the 300BLK die. I'm glad that I found that problem early!

    Don't do your final inspection on the firing line. It just takes a minute to check a whole box of ammo to make sure that the rounds chamber correctly, before you get to the range!

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    I keep a short dowel rod in one of my range bags just for squibs since my brother's M&P .45 experienced a couple when he first started reloading. We had hell clearing a .22 once when the guy (my uncle) forgot to remove the bore sight (not really a squib but a mess regardless).
     

    ROGER4314

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    About 10 years ago, I traded for an SKS rifle for some motorcycle leathers that shrunk (snicker). I took the rifle and it knocked around the living room untouched for a long time. To my horror, I checked it much later and found it was fully loaded and ready to fire. Boy.....did I learn a lesson!

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    kk365ss

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    Thanks a bunch folks. got it cleared no problem thanks to ya'll.
    don't know much but i know when to ask for help just to make sure.
    didn't get to be 70 hand still have 10 fingers by my self.
     
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