Need help to remove gouge inside of chamber

[idvarmint]

I went prairie dog hunting in Montana this weekend and was shooting Black Hill Remanufactured bullets in my new .223 Ultra.  I went to eject the shell and only about ¼ of the shell came out.  :eek:  The rest of the brass was still in the chamber…basically blew up the casing.  Me, being the rocket scientist that I am, decided to take a screw driver to it and see if I could bend over the remaining part of the casing and use a ram rod to tap out the remain brass.  I did it as careful as I could with the tools that I had out in the field.

I got the rest of the cartridge out of the camber.  I was elated thinking my new Ultra was back in business.  The next time I shot the casing would not eject.  I never had this problem prior to removing the blown up casing.   I then had to use my ram rod to gently tap out the spent casing in order to remove them on the average of 8 out of 10 times.  I examined the casing and could see little scratches in the brass caused by a nick I must have gouged in the chamber while trying to remove the casing.  The brass wouldn’t have any scratches in them prior to putting them in the chamber.

Now what to do?  Any ideas how to smooth out the gouge in the chamber??

P.S.  I WILL NEVER shoot Black Hills remanufactured bullets again!  I learned a hard lesson.

P.S.S.  This was our first PD hunt and we had a great time!  Good thing I had the old Remington 788 .243 and NEF 17HMR Sporter.

[quickdtoo]

You're not the first to report a problem with the black hills ammo.

http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=62507

I'd polish the scratch with 600 wet/dry paper with some oil on it, then finish up the entire chamber with flitz metal polish. You could use a bore mop on the tip section of a 3 piece cleaning rod, chucked in a drill, or run a screw into the primer pocket of a spent case after it's deprimed, then cut the head off the screw and chuck the shank up in a drill, apply some flitz to the case and polish the chamber, either should work.

[mitchell]

i had this happen to me about 2 weeks ago in my 204 (my fault i tried to get one too many reloads out of those hornady cases) well i didn't have a tap that would fit so i tried a number of things but still couldn't get it out . well it turns out my dad had a tap that would fit so i put in it and pulled my case out . after i got it out i was looking at the chamber and saw some scratches so i did the thing with the case like tim said it worked like a charm.

[dodd3]

hi idvarmint. a little trick a gun smith freind showed me to remove seoerated case from chamber use a ratail file, slide the file in to the chamber untill it sticks to the inside of the case then gently pull it out works like a charme