Bad on me, I need to review my process.
Was at the range yesterday when this happened. Shooting my 9mm reloads and had a fail to eject/fail to chamber the next round event. Opened the action and a really funky looking case came out, Good for me, the funky case was not ejected so that the next round could not chamber.
Ok, stop here. Pushed a chamber flag from the receiver direction and then from the muzzle direction. It hit an obstruction. Yep, something is stuck in the barrel. That something can only be the bullet from a squib round.
My process has been to take the primed case, pour the powder into it, then seat the bullet. I've read that one should charge the cases en mass..but I figure that I could double charge them following that. Really sure that the squib came from a primer only detonation.
Doing my routine of charge then seat the bullet, not doing batches...well, it just went wrong.
Nothing worse happened than that. But I do need advice about my process (ok pay attention) and more than thahow to go about removing the bullet that is stuck in the barrel? I can remove the barrel and then need some method of pounding/ tapping it out. A hammer and some sort of rod then won't mar the barrel is in order.
Ooops.. got a sqib
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