08-30-2011, 03:17 AM
What part of Texas are you in?
Been there- done that. (more times than I care to admit)
First I try a rubber or wooden mallet on the charging handle. If that doesn't work I have a sick of 1/4" brass rod for that purpose which as worked in all but one case.
I had a 160 grain projectile (LOTS of bearing surface) from a sub-sonic load that was too weak get STUCK about 1/2 was down the tube. I tried everything with the brass rod- solvent, gun oil, penetrating oil, small hammers, big hammers even a 3 lb sledge. I finally had to resort to HSS drill rod wrapped in electrical tape. The force that finally broke it loose was applied by...... an electric chipping hammer.:o Fortunately no damage. At lease none that affected it's performance. I printed a .5 MOA 5 round group at 1K this weekend with it.
Been there- done that. (more times than I care to admit)
First I try a rubber or wooden mallet on the charging handle. If that doesn't work I have a sick of 1/4" brass rod for that purpose which as worked in all but one case.
I had a 160 grain projectile (LOTS of bearing surface) from a sub-sonic load that was too weak get STUCK about 1/2 was down the tube. I tried everything with the brass rod- solvent, gun oil, penetrating oil, small hammers, big hammers even a 3 lb sledge. I finally had to resort to HSS drill rod wrapped in electrical tape. The force that finally broke it loose was applied by...... an electric chipping hammer.:o Fortunately no damage. At lease none that affected it's performance. I printed a .5 MOA 5 round group at 1K this weekend with it.