Originally Posted by azrancher
Had a friend with scratched chamber in a used gun he bought. Would not eject. Had to drive the empty out with a cleaning rod. We took a dowel and slit the end and inserted a piece of crocus cloth. Spun it with a drill till it would eject. Took a few rounds but he's had the rifle for years and no more problems.

Fred

Roy Dunlap wrote about that, it works. Have done that with worn 400 wet-or-dry. Doesn't get rid of the scratch, polishing not grinding, but does something like break the edges of the scratch (I guess) so brass doesn't grab. Works for surface rusted/crudded chambers in balky semiautos too.


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.