Local gum smith removed casing using a 1/4” easy out while tapping from muzzle end using a cleaning rod. Thanks for everyone’s help
Local gum smith removed casing using a 1/4” easy out while tapping from muzzle end using a cleaning rod. Thanks for everyone’s help
Well how about that. Guess I was pretty dang close with what I said!!!
Yep!!
A tap works 100% of the time. Been using it for decades.
This is for next time......learn what an incipient crack is and watch for them on the case body.
When you spot one....don't load it. The next step from incipient is to partial or full separation.
Once you learn what to look for...it looks like a little line or groove on the case body going around it's circumference . The line will start out small but quickly grows to a separation....
Watch for them pesky things! They cause you a lot of trouble and oath utterings
Gary
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The cracks I have. Found in past start from the inside and when you see on outside, it has already separated. I normally check all fired cases before loading with an L bent piece of piano wire sharpened to a fine point. It can detect thinned areas and cracks larger than the sharpen ed point. I don,t know of a better. Way! I norm ally remove all wax or lube from cases and from chamber. I am now wondering if totally clean brass and dry chamber is such a good idea?
Next time- sulfur bonds with copper/brass. Get it all clean, (no moly) melt some sulfur, pour it in ( bore blocked) let it harden for a couple minutes, tap it out from the muzzle. This will always work unless the brass is plated or contaminated with moly or some crazy homemade lube stuff.
Always works, no chance of damage to chamber. Do NOT use a rat tail file ever.
Post some 303 Savage loads, or stories.
Gun smith gave me the easy out— said it would happen again someday, just a matter of time and cases loaded. I will need to get some sulfur just in case. It is really a bummmer to have one stuck! Working with metallurgist to see what technology is available to detect cracks or thinning.
For tapered cases you can often chamber another fired case. Jam it into the broken case and your rifle's extractor will pull both cases out.
I have pulled a lot of cases out of Lee-Enfields with that trick.
EDG
Some of the guys that I shoot with have M-16's and its pretty common to find the neck of a 223 case stuck to a loaded round, laying on the firing line. And have separated broken 223 brass laying around after they shoot. I wondered if you could intentally shove a loaded round into the broken neck and get it out.
The thing that puzzled me was that the separation came in the middle of the case, which isn't the usual place. It might be that the case was engaging with pitting or other damage in the chamber. Maybe someone in the past had used a rat-tail file.
All seems well that ends well, and you heard some good advice. A case extractor is the counsel of perfection, but they aren't made for every calibre. The ones that work best catch the front edge of the neck rather than the interior, and that may fail if you have chamfered the neck heavily.
Cerrosafe has that special brief contraction to permit extraction. Leaving it for a few hours would help, and there are very similar alloys which don't contract - including low melting point solders, which should be best of all if you clean and flux the inside of the case. But it costs money and delay to get some, which you may never use again. I would have tried cutting off the part of that cast which fitted inside the case, and epoxying it in place. Then you could knock out the whole thing from the muzzle.
The only time I have had head separations in my M-16 was with two lots of surplus LC-73 and LC-74 ammo. About 1% of them separated at the anneal line on the case. Most came out when the next case jammed into it. The couple that did not came out when a tight patch was run from the muzzle end. They did the same thing in a Colt SP1 but not my bolt gun. So far those are the only case head separations that I have had. Guns others have brought to me have either allowed removal with a bore brush, or I put the action in the chest freezer and they fell out after the gun got down to temp.
-yarro
I have removed separated casings by just finding a suitable diameter piece of brass round stock and inserting it down the muzzle. I catch the mouth of the case on the edge of it and lightly tap with a hammer. An aluminum cleaning rod would also work if one has a spare to risk damaging in the process... Even a piece of brazing rod would work in a small bore.. It just needs a sharp enough edge on the tip to engage the mouth.
I have used a plastic wall anchor on a threaded rod. When pushed up into the ruptured case and given a few turns to expand the plastic anchor in the neck a pull will usually remove the broken case
I used cerrosafe. Just follow the directions for making a chamber cast. Nock it out with rod. Re melt latter and get your cerrosafe back.
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