Shooting my super redhawk today and primer just made a weird pop, noe bullet is lodged in the barrel.

Is it ok to use a dowel rod to try and pound it out? Or any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanx
HK

A dowel would be fine.
Sounds like a nonexistant powder charge rather than a bad primer.

[ 09-01-2002, 06:02: Message edited by: TomJ ]

I use a brass rod 1/4" but a hard wood dowl should work jacket or Cast? If cast you now can check your lands and grove Dia. No Powder I suspect and a primer has enough power to launch the projectile,my luck it usually stops between the cylinder and barrel tying up the gun so you can't get the brass out ,no big deal just don't beat the bullet back more than enough to open the cylinder then finsh the job with cylinder supported so you are not torquing on it. You will get it no fear- Rawhider

Good advice here, but use dowel and there's no chance you will harm anything with that.

Probably not the primer like the other guys said. Sounds like the case didn't get charged. Are you using a progressive loader? A dowel might work, or a section of shotgun cleaning rod......Grant.

Removed the cyclinder and crane to prevent it from being bent or sprung during the process of driving out the bullet. Ku-dude

Had a similar experience several years ago with a S&W 19. Bullet stoped between barrel and cylinder. Drove it back into the case with a wooden dowel. When I dismantled the round there was no powder. This has made me more careful about checking rounds before seating bullets.
Rick

Thanks for all the advice, just for informational purposes the case was charged cause all thge powder is in the barrel before the bullet, weird huh!

Sounds like the powder may have been contaminated. Have you shot any others that you loaded at the same time?

Thank the Lord you had the good sense not to pull the trigger again...



Dan

I bought the bullets at a gun show before I started to reload on my own all the others shot fine just the one did not go bang!

Least it was not one of my reloads, knock on wood LOL

Anyway thanks for all the suggestions, I recommend using an Oak dowel rod, as it worked great!

hkg3 hope you always look and compare powder charges in each case when you reload. i always make a point to do that as i use bullseye for magnum loads in a .357. a double load in a case would not do at all.im very carefull since bullseye is such a hot powder. a .357mag can be your best friend............

I make a point of not using anyone else's reloads. You never know what you're going to get.

I keep a hardwod dowel and a mallet in my range bag. I haven't had to use it much since I stopped trying to shoot jacketed bullets aat 750 f.p.s., but squibs happen.

I have no iea why this works, but it does: if you wrap masking tape around the end of the dowel that the mallet will strike (you're still hitting wood, just the outside is wrapped), the dowel will last much longer without splintering. Without the tape, sometimes the rod will splinter before you've got the bullet out.

H. C.