Coming from someone who has worked in several supermarkets, the likelihood of you being "unwatched" in all of my stores combined, would be in one aisle. So good luck with not wanting to be recorded. Everything we do anymore is public record, including your post about hitting someone with a crow bar.
Got it!!!! While forcing the slide(not barrel) against a desk, and using my hand to pull back on the slide! Finally slowly ground its way out of the chamber.
The brass casing was very mushroomed from the bullet being seated so low. Not sure if it was forced in during cycling or originally like...