Headless cartridge removal?

[Jubal Starbuck]

  Looking for ideas on how to remove a headless shell from a rifle chamber.  I was shooting my old 1892 Winchester carbine in .32-20 and I went to lever out an empty and just the head and about 1/4"  of the case came out.  I tried putting a little Liquid Wrench in there , then  ran a cleaning rod thru from the muzzle with a tight patch on it, then, when that failed, I ran a.38 bronze bristle brush thru it, also to no avail.  Any ideas?


Jubal Starbuck

[Goody]

Try driving a soft lead ball or slug down the barrel from the muzzle, like if you were sizing the bore. It usually works.

[Frenchie]

Shove some wadding into the neck from the muzzle end, melt some Cerrosafe, pour it in from the chamber end, let it set for an hour and pound that sucker out with a cleaning rod.

[Jubal Starbuck]

    I got that stuck .32WCF case out a few minutes ago.  I looked in one of the Gunsmith's Kinks books, either II orIII, and one guy said he closed the action and packed the chamber full of toilet paper, opened the action, and knocked it out with a cleaning rod.  Worked like a charm!  I tried a .315 round ball first , but it must have been too small, as it didn't work for me.
     Thanks for your advice guys.

    Best regards,

Jubal Starbuck