.44 Spring Desert Eagle Jammed With Paintball

[TheSenator]

Hi all, this is my first time posting here, i was searching the internet in ahope to resolve my issue.

basically, i put 6mm Paintballs in for the first time. The first shot fired fine, however, the second shot jammed and has become lodged somewhere.

i do not feel any air escaping when i pull the trigger and fire a shot.

i reloaded the mag w/ my original 6mm BBs and tried to fire a round, seeing if it might clear it, but to no avail. the BB also got stuck, or so i thought until i removed the magazine, cocked it, and it fell out the way it came in basically. however the Paintball is still stuck somewhere in there.

I've never taken my Desert Eagle apart, nor do i know how. if someone could provide a suggestion that might help me out, i'd greatly appreciate it

thanks
--TheSenator

[firemachine69]

Throw it out.

[nic_s]

Dude, what did you expect? Anyways, what brand is your Desert Eagle?

[Bob the Angry Potato]

Can't help you here, sorry.

But, may I ask, what country are you in? I'm guessing America, for several reasons...

Don't use Paintball BBs in any gun. They tend to jam, and/or explode in the barrel.

[TheSenator]

thanks for being helpful, next!

[TheSenator]

bob, yes i am in america, despite this obviously being a canada airsoft forum

guess i had to learn the hard way that paintballs = bad, but now that i'm in this situation, is there any way out?

...i dont even know what brand it is, i got it about 3 years ago, and just dug it out recently for an upcoming skirmish

[Bob the Angry Potato]

I'm afraid not... only way I can think of is one of those Marui cleaning/unjamming tools (Prett much a stick with an angle-ish notch in the end. Hard to explain).
I guessed you were American because for one, almost no one uses low-end springers here, and most people have the expertise not to use paintballs. However, America's home to (well-spoken, pretty much the equivalent of the moderators here) Airsofters who are serious about springers and LPEGs...
Sorry, mate. Don't think you'll find too much help here.

[MadMax]

Remove the mag. You might be able to push the ball out from the front of the barrel with a plastic rod. Many guns have a more or less open breech once the mag is removed.

[Greylocks]

The gun has been jammed with paint for how long? Did I read correctly it's been a few years?
If so, there's not much you can do that wont destroy the gun if you dont know how to take it apart.

If it's already a hopeless cause, and I think it is, may as well try this;

Get a bucket, fill it with water that is as hot as you could stand it without burning yourself or melting the plastic.
Put the entire gun and magazine in there.
Hope the paint and whatever crap dissolves.

Remove the gun, dry everything out quickly (you could try compressed air for that). Add a smear of silicone oil on the moving parts, and pray.

Adding details about your location in your profile is just a matter of courtesy, nobody here reads minds.

[MadMax]

Who cares where he's from? He asked a technical question which hasn't got anything to do with geography.

If you use the water trick, it's important to completely dry it out quickly. Many spring steel alloys also rust. One way to rapidly dry a gun is to preheat an oven to the lowest available temperature setting. My oven has a marking at 200F (95C) but I note that the thermostat turns on well before that. Warm it up to a toasty but not burning temperature and SWITCH OFF the element. Put a cardboard panel on the rack in case the racks are very hot from heat radiated from the elements (you might leave grill marks if you don't use cardboard) and put your pistol on top of the cardboard.

I like to remove the control knobs and stick on a big sign saying "NOOOOOO!" so my g/f doesn't decide to preheat the oven to say 400F to bake cookies with my gun still in there.

Do not put a cocked springer in for oven drying (warm ~65C temp will reduce many plastics strength) as it may stress features which hold the piston/spring cocked.

You can dry out a pistol without disassembling it in about 20 min sitting in a dry warm environment. It helps a lot to shake out as much water as you can before the oven too. The only water you won't remove is the bit of water which finds it's way into screw threads. Some screw threads will rust a bit, but it's just cosmetic.

This trick is also handy for GBBs, but you shouldn't stuff a gas filled mag in the oven for obvious reasons. While you probably wouldnt' blow up the mag, you would have a very high pressure mag which could do some damage to your slide if your hammer manages to bash open the valve.

Only dry with residual heat as kitchen ovens aren't designed for tight temperature control at low temperatures. I modded one for curing big rubber parts and found that the stock thermostat can overshoot by as much as 50C when you use a 50C setpoint. ABS melts at around 105C I think so don't even try to use an oven thermostat in a running mode. Preheat, check the temp and switch things off.

[Atomic_235]

when you use paintball, you break you gun
it's simple
if you want to shoot paintball, get a paintball

[yanhchan]

To tell you the truth a springer in the states costs like 20-50 bucks if its a pistol...I wouldn't worry too mucha bout it guys.

[firemachine69]

Originally Posted by yanhchan

To tell you the truth a springer in the states costs like 20-50 bucks if its a pistol...I wouldn't worry too mucha bout it guys.

Which brings us back to:

Originally Posted by firemachine69

Throw it out.

*Takes a bow.* :lol:

[keg057]

Put a lady cracker in the barrel and light it... then run away. :razz:

[Bob the Angry Potato]

Originally Posted by yanhchan

To tell you the truth a springer in the states costs like 20-50 bucks if its a pistol...I wouldn't worry too mucha bout it guys.

Not even that much, actually. From what I’ve seen, it goes from about 7 dollars, some 14-20.