These are posts made in response to a member who had a live round stuck in the chamber of his AR-15.
WillieD wrote:Remove the lower and see if you can get a flathead screwdriver between a gap in the upper receiver and the carrier and try to pull it back. I had a similar thing happen a few months back and we could not make it budge with the charging handle or the forward assist. When we removed the lower and did this the BCG came out smoothly practically no effort and I did not have any more problems. It is amazing what a little bit of leverage can do.
bdickens wrote:Try putting a liberal amount of penetrating oil down the barrel and letting it soak for awhile. Then bang the buttstock on a hard surface while pulling on the charging handle. Do it somewhere safe.
WarHawk-AVG wrote:P.S. In the Marines had a stuck brass...it was a "training exercise" with blanks
a. Remove mag
b. Smack rifle butt on ground vertically very hard (if the extractor isn't broken it will snatch any bad round out and eject it
I was in simulated "combat" so I didn't have the luxury of getting a screwdriver out...we used to use/abuse our M-16A2 and they kept on trucking!
In that situation it was, "click" no bang, attempt tap, rack,bang, rifle went tap, no rack, no bang. so I smacked it, ejected stuck round, chambered new round, put rifle in shoulder. bang bang bang.
Only time I had problems with my M-16A2 was when I fired blanks...live ammo it ate everything and kept on firing! In the 5 years I had it, it never gave me a problem unless it was shooting blanks
Do this in a safe manner!