Removing stuck lead bullets from barrel

Mercury poisoning is more a matter of time as it is a cumulative poison. The more exposure over time, the more likely there may be problems later in life. (Or your offspring.) It's not going to drop you in your tracks (although I don't think I would drink it or inhale the hot vapors.:o )
As long as there are alternates to using it, I will try them first.
 
A large pool of mercury is not a very big problem. It does not have enough surface area.
A mercury spill that breaks up into thousands of tiny little balls has a large surface area and will produce a significant amount of vapor if not cleaned up, and cleaning up the wrong way only makes the problem worse.

A set of brass range rods for pistols is not very expensive.
Add in a dead blow hammer and you can clear almost any handgun safely in just a few minutes.
 
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A brass rod works pretty well with just about any stuck bullet. DON'T use a wood dowel as the dowel will almost always split and add to the mess.

As for mercury, yes, I did the thing with coins and no one thought anything of it. But free mercury is almost impossible to obtain today, and advice to use it (along with blythe unconcern about its poisonous aspect) simply won't do.

Brickeyee, I don't think you mean range rods, which are precision gauges used to check revolver barrel/chamber lineup, and certainly should not be used to drive out bullets. I believe we are both thinking about plain brass rods of approximate bore size.

There is another way to remove stuck bullets, which I use, but don't dare mention here or I would be nailed to the wall.

Jim
 
"I don't think you mean range rods, which are precision gauges used to check revolver barrel/chamber lineup..."

I have always heard the brass rods for removing bullets called range rods, and alignement rods called that, alignement rods.
How a precision alignement rod could be called a 'range rod' is odd. They would never be used at a range for anything.
 
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