Coors, I had this happen to me in the middle of a deer hunt once upon a time. Bullet lodged about 6 inches into the barrel and I was royally screwed. Then we got a bright idea. We hiked back to the truck, got another loaded round and wedged the bullet in the barrel so we could hold it and wiggle it out of the case. Then we held the rifle upright, inserted and chambered the case with the powder and no bullet and fired the lodged bullet out of the gun. We didn't know what would happen but THOUGHT it would work.

Turns out it worked fine. With all that extra room between the powder and the projectile, it was actually very LOW pressure. Since that fateful day I've used this trick with a couple of other guys who fired a powderless round in their guns. It works fine.

Keep this in mind if you ever get bitten by this snake again. It will get you back in action.

You can take a cleaning rod to knock the bullet out. HOWEVER..........if the bullet is very far up the barrel and all you've got is the usual little aluminum cleaning rod....chances are all you'll do is ruin a good cleaning rod. It takes a LOT of force to drive a jacketed bullet through a barrel. Shooting it out is probably much better than beating the bullet out with what it may take to do it. No harm to the rifle if you blast it out with a case charged with powder.