How this gun passed inspection back in the day is a mystery to me, especially since on every screw on the gun there's at least 3 inspector proof marks.
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I loaded a live round, went to the range and was done after firing that 1 round; the brass neck tore off right where that galling groove sits, leaving the neck in the chamber. Sucker is stuck in there good since the brass flowed into that groove.
Caliber is 43 beaumont (obsolete) so i don't think i'll find finish reamers to ream that brass out.
The plan is to take that now piece of shortened brass, load a shorter bullet with a mild load, fire it and and see if that broken neck wants to blow out that way, since it's otherwise not moving. I don't expect much in the way of accuracy with this circus going on, but only one way to find out. My theory here being that there's no actual obstruction in the part of the bullet since the inner diameter of that brass is larger then the diameter of the bullet. Off course i will have to check after each shot to verify that piece of brass has not moved. Not ideal, but i'm hoping that the combustion might blow out that piece after the bullet has passed through it....
And once that piece of broken neck is out then i will have to trim the brass to below the groove, and perhaps use a longer bullet. Even without part of the neck not here in the brass i still have enough neck to seat a shorter bullet firmly. If it stays there for a while then i'm stuck with short bullets and a big jump to the lands.
Unless there's another way to get this brass piece out that is not becoming a prohibitively expensive exercise ?
See pics, any input as to how to approach this situation is appreciated.
Fired with part of neck torn off;
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Piece of neck stuck in groove / bore;
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And not to worry, not going to do anything rash, just looking for ideas..:)