Other $100 pcp, Pellets Jamed in barrel

[airgunner53]

So, I purchased a beeman raider in .25 as I wanted a cheep .25 pcp to mess with. It was posted as leaking pcp on the online auctions for $100. Low and behold when it arrived I noticed the breech oring was on the bolt probe. A pellet fell out of the barrel and I knew that a pellet was jammed in the barrel. After making some caveman attempts to remove it I put my mind and tools to work.
First I removed all the air (this was done before the caveman work) from the pcp and disassembled it.
Than measured the depth of the pellet and found a suitable drill bit and placed it in my laithe. Drilled out the Pellets learning that it was more than one.
I grabbed a brass rod and used a die to thread one end and used my laithe to drive it into the pellet from the barrel inlet side.
I used a crescent wrench and a mallet to lightly tap the rod and pellet out like a slide hammer. Did this until there was no Pellets in the bore and ran a few patches until it was clean.
Now to go and remove Pellets from a 140 barrel. Now I have confidence to by used pellet guns that have Pellets stuck in the barrel. This is possible without a laithe however, I would not choose to do it without one.

 

[Motorhead]

Had a barrel sent to me a couple years back .... as i recall after drilling threw the lot of them .... 17 stacked and smashed pellets came out.
A lot of soaking and brush scrubbing to get all the burnished in lead out .... Post work customer stated back to normal & shooting fine.

Without a lathe, long extension drills and patience barrel would have been trash canned !!!

Nice work on getting them out

 

[airgunner53]

Thanks and good work to you good sir. It looks like mine had 7 inside of it. 17! Wow. You had your work cut out for you.

 

[Motorhead]

Thanks and good work to you good sir. It looks like mine had 7 inside of it. 17! Wow. You had your work cut out for you.

Not that hard once the center is drilled threw relieving the tension holding them in place.
Another method is heat .... barrel vertical, propane torch and melt out the lead. Clean up post is not so easy tho

 

[airgunner53]

Not that hard once the center is drilled threw relieving the tension holding them in place.
Another method is heat .... barrel vertical, propane torch and melt out the lead. Clean up post is not so easy tho

I tried that one on the 140 barrel but I did not get it hot enough. I think a .177 barrel may be a different story as most in the time I've seen it, they have bbs jammed.

 

[airgunner53]

I saw all this work on a online video, might have actually been you. It was an fx barrel.

 

[Vetmx]

How does this even happen? Stacking that much lead in a barrel before a light goes on in a brain saying there might be a problem.

 

[Struckat]

How does this even happen? Stacking that much lead in a barrel before a light goes on in a brain saying there might be a problem.

The light bulb was out.

 

[Firewalker]

I got a Notos returned to me with an OEM mag full of pellets in the barrel, he didn't have a pump and shot it down until pellets no longer exited and stacked them up until the valve opened and degassed the gun.

He bought a pump but could not get air into it (didn't cock it) and wanted his money back.

He got the gun back, full of air and detailed instructions on how to fill and shoot it.

He bought a second one last month so I think he figured it out.

 

[ToddGeddes63]

Had a barrel sent to me a couple years back .... as i recall after drilling threw the lot of them .... 17 stacked and smashed pellets came out.
A lot of soaking and brush scrubbing to get all the burnished in lead out .... Post work customer stated back to normal & shooting fine.

Without a lathe, long extension drills and patience barrel would have been trash canned !!!

Nice work on getting them out

17 pellets? WOW!! I thought I was hardheaded.

 

[airgunner53]

It could be easy to do if one is sighting in their gun for the first time ever at a good long distance thinking they are not on paper yet. I had a person once buy a stubby 2240 from me and they messaged me saying the co2 would not pierce. They went on to say how they even used a large screwdriver to crank the cap down and it would not piece. I reminded them that the instructions where in the box, told them my concerns that they might break the valve mounting screw and check it for safety or send it back. They figured it out.
Sometimes people are not an instructions kind of person.

 

[Trucker3573]

How does this even happen? Stacking that much lead in a barrel before a light goes on in a brain saying there might be a problem.

I know not kind or PC but I often am neither so anyway retards shouldn’t own any type of gun. Would solve that problem. Lol

 

[Vetmx]

I know not kind or PC but I often am neither so anyway retards shouldn’t own any type of gun. Would solve that problem. Lol

I guess it’s no different than the guy who buys a muscle car and immediately wraps it around a telephone pole. I did put a .22 magazine in a .25 and went nuts for an hour wondering what happened to my guns accuracy.

 

[Trucker3573]

I guess it’s no different than the guy who buys a muscle car and immediately wraps it around a telephone pole. I did put a .22 magazine in a .25 and went nuts for an hour wondering what happened to my guns accuracy.

And my comment comes from a guy that shot through a window because he didn’t open it. Guess I’m the pot calling the kettle black.

 

[6gun]

Had a barrel sent to me a couple years back .... as i recall after drilling threw the lot of them .... 17 stacked and smashed pellets came out.
A lot of soaking and brush scrubbing to get all the burnished in lead out .... Post work customer stated back to normal & shooting fine.

Without a lathe, long extension drills and patience barrel would have been trash canned !!!

Nice work on getting them out

Sounds like that revolver barrel that had squibs stacked up almost the entire length of it that you see on firearms boards all the time. Nice work extracting them.

 

[Motorhead]

Sounds like that revolver barrel that had squibs stacked up almost the entire length of it that you see on firearms boards all the time. Nice work extracting them.

As I recall it was a vintage FWB 124 which is known for an ample choke, rifle in question was on an original seal and failing, thus pellet makes it to muzzle at choke stopping there, shots attempted not knowing where shots are going more get sent down barrel making a mess of a jam. Few pokes by customer with a hard rod & jag from breech end ... equates to a compressed road block or stacked pellets

 

[6gun]

As I recall it was a vintage FWB 124 which is known for an ample choke, rifle in question was on an original seal and failing, thus pellet makes it to muzzle at choke stopping there, shots attempted not knowing where shots are going more get sent down barrel making a mess of a jam. Few pokes by customer with a hard rod & jag from breech end ... equates to a compressed road block or stacked pellets

A single noticed squib is easy to deal with. Each additional one is an order of magnitude worse. It's nice to see other guys with tools handling what would seem to be near impossible to deal with for most.

 

[airgunner53]

I guess it’s no different than the guy who buys a muscle car and immediately wraps it around a telephone pole. I did put a .22 magazine in a .25 and went nuts for an hour wondering what happened to my guns accuracy.

I once did this. I had bought a 1377 and was not aware it was converted to a .22 kept wondering why the Pellets where tumbling out.

 

[Sicumj]

I actually drilled a 12" chop stick out once. My personal best is 10 pellets and then the mag blew out of the gun. I filled it full of kroil and was able to drive them out the next day. Good job and good thing for lathes.

 

[nobody1]

And my comment comes from a guy that shot through a window because he didn’t open it. Guess I’m the pot calling the kettle black.

I shot through a window once, with an AEA HP SS.
I had just added a scope to it.
Looking through the scope out the window I pulled the trigger .
I expected that air gun to have no pellet in the barrel.
I was shocked to see a hole in the window and tiny fractures extending all over the window.

The trigger on the AEA HP SS will capture pellets in the trigger area, so the trigger will work sometimes and not work other times.
I sold that air gun to people who claimed they knew how to deal with their issues.