Ever have one of those days where nothing goes right?
Was cleaning my Winchester M88 this morning, using the Otis cable/pull through system. All clean, took the bore guide out and gonna run one last dry patch through to make sure the chamber and throat is clean. I don't know if I used the wrong size or doubled up the patch, but it gave me a little resistance at the start, and my mind was admittedly elsewhere so I did the stupidest thing possible. I gave it a real hard tug. Oh...****.
Tried pushing it back out with the cable, nope. Tried getting a hook in it from the chamber, nope. Poured a bunch of CLP down the barrel and let it sit for a few hours, nope. Tried hemostats from the chamber, nope just ripped a few threads off. Tried a small wooden dowel, nope, the one that fits down the barrel with the cable taking up space is too small to hammer on.
Short of a trip to a gunsmith and the usual hydraulic method, any ideas? Or gunsmith recommendations in the morinville/st albert/north Edmonton region?