Re: Unload and reuse?
zach.trumble said:
Shot a deer yesterday and reloaded in the field. That completes my season so I decided to try unloading.
Whoever said it is ridiculously hard to push a charge out of the barrel was absolutely right. Way harder than I thought it was going to be.
I wasted way more than $2 worth of time and busted my knuckles on the muzzle when it finally popped. Definitely just set up a target and shoot it!
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The only time it would be beneficial to push the load out, would be if you haven't already shot a load through it.
In your situation, you had already fouled your bore when you shot your deer. The rifle needs to be completely cleaned after that event. If you reloaded in the field, it's better to just shoot it the load at that point.
Either way, it needs to be cleaned. If you had not shot it, pushing out the load can be advantageous to someone that has to drive to shoot it. I have a 100 yard range, 50 yards out my back door.
You said pellets, so those are easy. Lose powder such as Blackhorn 209 is easy if you don't use grade it anti-seize on your breech plug. I use Teflon tape on most rifles, and nothing but a very light coat of oil on the CVA QRBP's. Nothing seals fouling out of breech plug threads better than those.
In the future, should you ever have to push out a load from a rifle that has been shot. Remove the breech plug, dump the powder/pellets out the breech end, then use s range rod to push the sabot/bullet out the muzzle. With Blackhorn 209, it's easy either way. With Pyrodex and Triple Se7en Powder or Pellets, you Will have to push through that extremely hard crud ring where the powder sits. That is why it was hard to do, and s knuckle buster for sure.
If you don't have a place to shoot it at home, and you will not be hunting your area again any time soon (as in the end of the season/tagged out), just shoot it at last legal light. You already have shot at least once, and have your deer, the rest of the deer will forget about that shot by the next fall.