1911 Slide Stuck

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Shooting today and old faithful let me down. The slide is stuck as follows:
1. Spent case in chamber. It is spent, thank goodness not a live round. Brass slightly visible between slide and barrel at the ejection port.
2. Case is free to move about 1/16".
3. Ejector is visible on the case rim, in correct position to eject if slide went full back.
4. Hammer at full cock.
5. Slide back slightly about 3/8".
6. Slide will move back and forth about 1/16"

I was shooting a competition and she just stuck up.

The bushing will not turn. The slide release lever is 3/8" away from the slide recess it needs to be in to remove the lever.

I live in a small town. No gun smith for 45 miles.

How do I get the slide off?
 
Steve has this posted at other forums. No sense wasting your time here folks as more information and suggestions are already covered.
 
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It is a squib load that bulged the barrel in a gun with a rinky dink stick on comp. He fired another out of it after the squib. He has buchered the gun and the barrel still won't come out of the slide. The internet experts on another forum are still in the dark. Evidently this was posted an a bunch of other forums so he will get a lot of really great advice. He also can't spell Dremel. All I can say is Good Luck! EAGLE'S LAW: "If you can't spell it, don't use it". The fix? A New Top End!
 
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It was on the Low Road errrrrrrrrrrr. Pardon me that is not correct. Sorry. It is the www.TheHighRoad.org . I was sent a link because I never go there. I am not welcome there so I do not look at the posts . This was so funny that I had to comment. I hope I am not in trouble here. I have seen this on the line a dozen times in matches and the shooter is on Auto Pilot and can't hear the Squib and then bang, puts a good one right on top of it. There is really nothing funny about it happing, except the great advice he got there. Sometimes double taps will get you in trouble! I have had to beat the barrels out through the front of the bushing and slide and then cut them off with a hack saw to get them out of there. The fat part out the rear end! It can be done if you know how. Cut them off in front of the bulgy part like a snake that just ate a rabbit.
There is a deep lesson here somewhere if only we can find it......................
 
Getting the slide off is easy, I broke the lower lugs off a barrel and the chambered round when fired swelled out into what was left of the chamber, locking up the slide. No squib, barrel broke from old age, peeled about an inch of chamber with the lower lugs. The round that gave me a clue was dull sounding, and smoke came from betwixt the frame and slide. HMMM? Gun shop expert figured I'd have to cut the slide in two to get it apart. After careful consideration this is what I did instead:

I slid a piece of sacrificial metal under the slide stop arm to protect the slide. Metal was former coke can scope shim. I cut the arm in half with a dremel cut-off wheel, pushed the pin out and pulled the slide off. Still had to free the extractor's death grip on the case which was not too hard. Case is in the barrel to this day.
 
I went over and checked it out, seems like a bad situation getting worse.
Vinegar?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that will remove the blueing, in a very short time.

I don't know what to tell ya, I've never been in this situation, but I will wish you luck.
 
There is a deep lesson here somewhere if only we can find it........
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Yes, I'm beginning to learn Dave.
The shooter never fessed up to shooting into a stuck bullet, you just assumed that but told us that it was a fact.

Yes, I had a dog in that hunt, just trying to see if I could help a fellow shooter out by using some noninvasive methods prior to getting down to the nut cutting.

CaptainRazor, If you will read the other thread you will see that the vinegar/hydrogen peroxide did not harm an old Ruger barrel after a two hour immersion. To reblue a slide would be a lot cheaper than paying for a new barrel and having it fitted.

The shooter has not been the best in fully describing his problem and it may turn out the he did exactly what Mr. Sample says.
 
Thanks. The problem was obvious to me as I have been building these 1911's for a very long time and I have played the role of the Court of Last Resort many times. If you understand how things work, then you can make internet assumtions.
If you can turn the barrel bushing to the take out postion, you can beat the barrel out a little easier. You may even get it out without all the cutting, etc. Every one of these situations is different, but the swelling of a barrel in a pistol match and that kind of jam is not new to pistolsmiths. Sqib/ Poof, hot round/ Bang/Jam. Barrel will not move much and cannot be taken apart. OOOPPPPsss! Back to the drawing board!
 
Oh. One thing more. You can ruin a barrel with a squib and the live round will blow out both bullets out of there and leave you with a clear barrel. Maybe De Shadow knows more about this. Or let us ask the all knowing one. What's His Name? I am tired of this one, anyway. Good luck.
 
I'll dig the hole.........you can cover it up. I am not whining. This guy called me names on a forum that I can not respond on. I am not required to take that without an Honorable Mention.
 
It's Off!

Just in case ya'll ain't follerin' this'un over there...He got it off. Looks like the good Cap'n nailed this one from the git-go. Kudos!

Just another reason to stay away from comp guns and light loads... :eek:
 
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