About 1 inch past the forcing cone stuck in the barrel. This would be a job
for a wooden dowel and a hammer to beat it out. This assumes you recognized
the failure and looked before you chamber and fire another round. If the
second option were taken, serious injury would result from the exploding
gun.
Steve

"Roger Shoaf" wrote in message
...
Assume one were to take a .357 revolver and load it with shells that were
reloaded with a primer only and without any powder.

How far would the bullet get, only propelled by the primer charge?

If it makes a difference let's assume that the bullets are standard lead
round nose (no metal jacket.


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Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube,
then
they come up with this striped stuff.