Stuck casing

[Judicator]

I have a family friend bolt action rifle here in my house. The issue is that when he was firing his purchased reloaded ammo. He got to one that was REALLY loud and had alot of recoil. He went to eject the round and the lip of the casing tore off.
We tried getting the casing out with ph-blaster and a metal rod down the barrel, and hammering on it but no luck. I'm going to try to morrow heating up the barrel but down know if it will work because the casing is steel. Anyone have anymore ideas before it heads to a smith? Thanks

 

[drgrant]

Rather than apply heat to the firearm, I would bring it to a smith.

-Mike

 

[CMEBoston]

Yeah I wouldn't heat the barrel, is the rim torn or did you have a head separation? I had a similar thing happen to my Mauser and it took some beating but my GI cleaning rod got it out.


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[PixelPusher]

Rather than apply heat to the firearm, I would bring it to a smith.

-Mike

What he said.

Plus, make sure the smith looks for over pressure damage while he has it.

 

[pastera]

$20 for a pound of CerroSafe from RotoMetals
http://www.rotometals.com/product-p/chamber_casting_alloy_1_pound.htm

Push a patch about 1/4" into the rifling
heat the cerrosafe in a can in boiling water - use something you will never let touch food again (it's not very SAFE) - heating low temp alloys with direct flame boils off some of the metals degrading them

Use aluminium foil to make a funnel and pour the cerrosafe in the chamber up to the remainder of the casing.

wait a couple of minutes (the surface of the cerrosafe will crystalize)
use an old rod to knock the casting/case out of the chamber

If you pour too much you won't be able to get the casting out - just heat the chamber up with a heat gun and pour out the cerrosafe

 

[SSW]

Rather than apply heat to the firearm, I would bring it to a smith.

-Mike

What he said.

Plus, make sure the smith looks for over pressure damage while he has it.

^^^^^^^^^What they said, better safe than sorry. Best of luck!!

 

[dhuze]

A gunsmith will have a broken shell extractor. Don't risk damaging the rifling by trying to hammer anything out.

 

[PATRON]

Never be in a hurry to apply heat to a firearm to much and you could be f^#ked when you fire it.

 

[Judicator]

Just an update and clarification of what I meant by casing lip tore off. I looked into broken shell extractors and didn't look like it would work in this case.

 

[Fixxah]

Thhat looks pretty brittle. Will a modified shell holder fit in there? Must be something that allows leverage for extraction that slips over casehead without applying much force. I would consider freezing it with fire extinguisher or nitrogen to shrink it.

 

[jdesro]

You're right, a broken shell extractor won't work with that. To echo the comments above, bring it to a gunsmith.

You said he was using reloaded steel case ammo? I'm not sure what that is, but when you get the case un-stuck don't shoot any more of that in that rifle.

Those SVT-40s are getting pretty scarce and expensive, and were not exactly the strongest actions to begin with. If anything breaks on that your friend is going to have a hard time finding replacement parts.

When you do get it running again, please use better quality ammo. It would be a shame to see one of those destroyed just to save a few bucks with crappy ammo.

 

[Judicator]

Thanks I'll return it and relay the info.