Rusty Gate
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I've a 300 PRC & 20 heads I need to pull.
What press mounted puller is a good choice please
What press mounted puller is a good choice please
Bullet puller advice please
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I use the Hornady cam lock puller, but prefer to use it by feel rather than going "over the cam"...so I just adjust it overtight and hold the cam lever down each time. It saves the faff of winding it in and out to find the position to get the cam to lock to grip sufficiently without marking the bullet. Especially for small numbers...maybe worth adjusting to set the lock if you had a hundred to do, but I have never bothered.
Alan
Alan
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Depends if you want to reuse the bullets and/or how fussy you are.
The hack is to raise the bullet through the press without a die in place, grab bullet with mole grips and lower. One pulled bullet. Not necessarily in such worse condition than if extracted with a collet die
Cheaper to bin at most 20 bullets than buy a die ?? Personally I use them as foulers
The hack is to raise the bullet through the press without a die in place, grab bullet with mole grips and lower. One pulled bullet. Not necessarily in such worse condition than if extracted with a collet die
Cheaper to bin at most 20 bullets than buy a die ?? Personally I use them as foulers
You can always use a bit of leather or similar (a strip cut off a brass cartridge case, or a bit of plastic/copper water pipe, yoghourt pot, postcard?) between mole grip jaw and bullet which further reduces the chance of bruising the bullet doing it that way.
Alan
Alan makes a valid point , thin jacketed bullets are particularly vulnerable especially if there's a lot of neck tension.
Anyone using a collet die & leaving marks on their bullets isn't using it correctly.
Rusty Gate
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Thats my go to at the moment with a rubber lined plier
Will a collet puller remove crimped bullets without rendering them un-usable. I always use a kinetic hammer puller.
True. The risk is avoided altogether, even when setting up, just using it by feel.
It shouldn't add any marks as @finnbear270 says.
If you can re-use them successfully after crimping and removal by inertia hammer, you should equally be able to re-use them after a collet puller.
I always use a Lee Factory Crimp Die and have always re-used pulled bullets...they have mainly been mono metal lead free, and I have avoided crimping into a cannelure on any of the bullets I have had to pull.
I use an inertia hammer mainly to tweak seating depth. As you know, dismantling rounds with one is a bit of a faff undoing the cap tipping out and separating the bullet, powder and the ear plug each time! The collet puller is much quicker and simpler to use.
Alan
You can go off people , you know!
I'll be honest , I'm a bit rubbish.
Why didn't I think of that!
Just tried it and it's saved me 5 Ballistic Tips, powder and primers.
Thank you.
Depends entirely on your neck tension and crimp
Not always possible if you have been load testing, hit pressure earlier than expected and therefore have round rounds that are not safe to shoot higher up the ladder
Hard crimps can be bypassed by technique. Repeated blows on the press lever with the flat of the hand, it's a learning curve.
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