PULLED BULLETS are a no no when buying bullets?????

[Why not?]

If the bullets are pulled the seller should say so in the ad. Not doing so is dishonest and deserves feedback accordingly.

Jethunter has it exactly right. Not only is it dishonest, but it is not smart, because it is easy to tell they have been pulled. I am wondering if it was an oversight.

Having said that, I have shot lots of pulled bullets, and unless the bases were damaged, they were all accurate enough for hunting. Friend of mine up here bought thousands of pulled military bullets that had three very deep and ugly crimps on one siide of them from whatever was used to pull them. He used them for shooting silhouette, and except for increased drag requiring more elevation at long range, they were fine all the way out to the rams at 500 meters.

One Spring we picked up a lot of spent bullets on the range that had been shot at targets. Caught in the snow, they had rested there until it melted away, and were easy to see. Just for giggles, we started a new event, an informal Spring thaw bench rest shoot, STBR. Even with rifling engraved on the shanks, and noses deformed, some beginning to expand and almost flat, you could have still used them successfully for hunting.

Ted

 

[H4831]

I guess we are all agreed, the vendor should have disclosed the fact the bullets had been pulled.
However, it is actually a small event. A hundred new bullets from the store is not really a huge investment and I imagine the buyer got these at a reduced price. So just move on.
I do not have a bullet puller, as I pull very few bullets. When I do, however, I take the die out of my press, let just the bullet protrude above the press, grasp it with side cutting pliers and pop the press handle up. The bullet comes out, with gouges in the sides from the plier.
I too, have shot these for groups and a person would not be handicapped by using them for hunting.

 

[sunray]

Whether or not a pulled bullet(usually out of milsurp ammo and not made for great accuracy anyway) will be accurate at all depends on how they were pulled. Mind you, the only part of any bullet that matters is the base. If the jacket is a bit marred it doesn't matter.
Do totally agree that if the seller is not telling you they're 'used', he is misrepresenting his stuff.

 

[22to45]

Perhaps this is the wrong place to mention that on entering a barrel, a bullet undergoes huge violence compared to being pulled.

 

[H4831]

Perhaps this is the wrong place to mention that on entering a barrel, a bullet undergoes huge violence compared to being pulled.

A hundred years ago, prior to WW1, the British did a lot of experimenting with the 303. One thing they discovered was when the cartridge is fired, the base of the bullet starts to move before the front of the bullet moves!
So yes, the violence starts even before the bullet hits the rifling.