Thread: Today’s F$#k up

I’m After a bit of help and wasn’t sure what topic to put it under.
Snake bore pull through is well stuck down my barrel, like well stuck.
Upon effing things up further anyone got any handy tips to get the bugger out?
Snake is fully inside the barrel, only hanging out the end.

I think trying to push it out with something will just bunch it up and make it tighter. You should be able to pull it out. Just pull harder

Oil and some vice grip pliers

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Heat a piece of straight rod and burn it out, have you used the wrong size pull thru or added a piece of cleaning cloth to the loop end.

Gunsmith, they have probably seen it before.

Originally Posted by G.I_Joel

I’m After a bit of help and wasn’t sure what topic to put it under.
Snake bore pull through is well stuck down my barrel, like well stuck.
Upon effing things up further anyone got any handy tips to get the bugger out?
Snake is fully inside the barrel, only hanging out the end.

I did read about a guy who had something like this happen with an AR15. He took it to a gunsmwith, they screwed a fitting onto the end of the barrel and pumped grease into it until it came out.

What size snake down what size bore? First time I put a new .270 snake down a 6.5 bore, I wasn't at all sure it was going to come out at first! Keep in mind that the more you pull, the more it stretches, becoming narrower and eventually comes out. That time with the 6.5, I was pulling the snake and mate was hanging onto the rifle, and were really really pulling on that mofo... Get stronger mates with some mass behind them

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

I did read about a guy who had something like this happen with an AR15. He took it to a gunsmwith, they screwed a fitting onto the end of the barrel and pumped grease into it until it came out.

I've seen a projectile got out of a barrel that way, using the muzzle thread.

I got one out of a bore by filling the bore half full with diesel engine oil and then easing two sections of a old multi peice cleaning rod onto the oil.

Then smacking it with a hammer.
It hydraulic'd right out.

*It wasn't my gun*

I had this happen to me on a 22lr. luckily I grabbed the broken end and pulled it out

After that I would not leave the barrel too dirty before I use the snake again, but if I did, I use a rod and brush first to loosen up the dirt build up first before I use the snake. I have not had issue since. I dont shoot centrefire enough to have this problem, but i have to follow this rule for my 17hmr and 22lr, espescially the match barrels.

My 243 boresnake was so damn hard to pull through my 243 i decided to use the 22 boresnake instead. The 243 one got used on the 260.

Originally Posted by tetawa

Heat a piece of straight rod and burn it out, have you used the wrong size pull thru or added a piece of cleaning cloth to the loop end.

NEVER DO THIS, just don't it ends in tears or it did for me many many years ago

Pull a projectile and shoot it out.

Originally Posted by Shearer

I think trying to push it out with something will just bunch it up and make it tighter. You should be able to pull it out. Just pull harder

I did that a young soldier. After a long and difficult training exercise we were cleaning machine guns and rifles when I used a 7.62 pull through on a 5.56 rifle (I blame tiredness). I realised what I had done when it jammed fast. I took it to the armoury and owned up to what I’d done. They fixed it somehow and it cost me a jar of coffee.

Moral of the story - take it to a gunsmith. Will likely cost more than a jar of coffee, though.

soak with crc/brake clean,wrap the end around a round piece of wood to make a strong handle,2 beefy lads on either end and pull like you were pulling Helen Clarks teeth.

Muzzle loader shooters have a tool called a worm for exactly this situation with a lost patch or to pull out a mistake loaded charge. Sort of like a corkscrew that grabs the wad and drags it out. With a stuck Buller it's tapped in today then screwed into the bullet to pull it out. Of course it's a bit easier when the calibres over 45 compared to a 223