RCBS inertia bullet puller broke

lone ranger said:
You Never use any inertia bullet puller like a hammer. You will break them every time.
I have pulled over 700 pistol rounds with mine.
the trick- Hold the handle Loosely with your 3 lower fingers. never, never a tight grip.
Once you Wack it....let the inertia bounce it while holding loosley.
Your kinda Limp Wristing it. It has to be able to bounce back with NO resistance.

If your using it like a Hammer, ,,you are "Using Strike Force" instead of Inertia.

I always put thick cardboard on the floor. ....and move it around as it gets damaged.

I learned this after breaking 2 of mine.
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I also have one of the Quinetics metal shaft units. I've been using it for over 30 years and it's still going strong. The shaft is now a little swayback but it keeps on ticking and that's smacking it directly on the concrete basement floor. Guess I'm just lucky, but I also hold it a little loosely and let it bounce up on it's own.

Auggie D.
 
Different pullers for different situations. Pulling one bullet because you made a mistake setting your die depth, I use my RCBS inertia puller. Pulling 100 surplus rifle bullets, out comes my collet puller. RCBS has replaced my whole inertial hammer once and the cap on it once, no charge that I can remember. This has been twice in almost 30 years but when it happens it is a bit of a pain waiting for the mail. They are cheap enough that I now have a second hammer as a back up, I hate when my reloading plans get derailed.
 
lone ranger said:
You Never use any inertia bullet puller like a hammer. You will break them every time.
I have pulled over 700 pistol rounds with mine.
the trick- Hold the handle Loosely with your 3 lower fingers. never, never a tight grip.
Once you Wack it....let the inertia bounce it while holding loosley.
Your kinda Limp Wristing it. It has to be able to bounce back with NO resistance.

If your using it like a Hammer, ,,you are "Using Strike Force" instead of Inertia.

I always put thick cardboard on the floor. ....and move it around as it gets damaged.

I learned this after breaking 2 of mine.
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100%.
However,
I set a heavy piece of steel on the bench to strike against.
When I was a kid, a maybe money was tight, my father built a kenetic puller from hardwood. He used a washer counter sunk as a shell holder ( for the 32win spl). A piece of plywood acted as the cover. It pivoted sideways to open.
He still has it.
 
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laurencen said:
after a days work figured I would pull some 44webley rounds to check powder and add some, on the 6th round the head flew off the handle, had it some time maybe 200 rounds total, on inspection there is grooves in the shaft to hold the handle in, its sheared off on the first groove, likely why they have gone to all plastic

anyone had this happen?
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Yes, a couple of times. I still have one (they are useful at times), but I also own the RCBS press mounted bullet puller and the FA wall mounted one, which is noisy as hell, but works quite well. - dan
 
I used a Quinetics inertia puller for years and beat the heck out of it many times on the cement floor but never broke it. When the jaws gave out I switched using RCBS shell holders instead.

These days I use a collet puller, much easier and quieter to use!
 
UR2X3M4ME said:
Spent 3 in the last 10 years. Still have one for the one off jobs but now I mostly use a bullet puller. There are collets for most calibers. Forster, RCBS and Hornady all have their version, I like the Forster.

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Had a inertia puller and gave it away, because it was slow and sometimes messy. Went many years before needing a puller again.

Then bought the RCBS puller die with .30 and .22 cal collets.
Used it a couple times and sold it.

I will never use any collet style ever again. Even if you are as gentle as you possibly can be, they will always mess up your bullet's profile. That is, it will change your bullet's ogive.

I would rather go back to an inertia hammer.
 
Munkey1973 said:
Had a inertia puller and gave it away, because it was slow and sometimes messy. Went many years before needing a puller again.

Then bought the RCBS puller die with .30 and .22 cal collets.
Used it a couple times and sold it.

I will never use any collet style ever again. Even if you are as gentle as you possibly can be, they will always mess up your bullet's profile. That is, it will change your bullet's ogive.

I would rather go back to an inertia hammer.
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I would certainly agree with you.
I also have one . Its sits in my reloading box and never gets used anymore. Ya...it damages the bullet to the point you just Toss it out.
 
get the collet puller.

inertial is for when you have one or two.

any more use the collet, save yourself the hassle.
 
I use the green RCBS plastic inertia hammer puller. For a striking surface I use a piece of 2x4, or 2x6 on the concrete floor. Sometimes it takes as many as 4 blows, but the bullets have no damage. I am on my second hammer since the mid 70s.

The longer bullets have been seated, the more likely they have bonded themselves in the neck. If you are correcting a recent reloading error, just go straight to the hammer. If the ammo has been together for a while, e.g. surplus, crimped, or both, then first put them in your press and use the seater die to push the bullet down just enough to break the bond. now use the hammer.
 
It finally dawned on me a couple of years ago, after Ganderite informed me about bullet/case neck weld, how to make pulling bullets from surplus ammo much easier.

It takes some extra time but it saves a lot of time banging the heck out of a cartridge in the inertia puller.

Use your press to set back the bullet a few thousandths and break the weld and loosen the crimp.

Makes life so much easier.
 
lone ranger said:
I would certainly agree with you.
I also have one . Its sits in my reloading box and never gets used anymore. Ya...it damages the bullet to the point you just Toss it out.
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LMAO ..... I think the one you have used to be MINE.
I might of gave it to you that second time we met when I gave away to you all that once fired 223 brass !

Too funny !!
 
bearhunter said:
It finally dawned on me a couple of years ago, after Ganderite informed me about bullet/case neck weld, how to make pulling bullets from surplus ammo much easier.

It takes some extra time but it saves a lot of time banging the heck out of a cartridge in the inertia puller.

Use your press to set back the bullet a few thousandths and break the weld and loosen the crimp.

Makes life so much easier.
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That is a good tip. I also have a small piece of dense foam fitted into the catching end of the puller to save the bullet tips. - dan
 
I made one using a piece of 3/4 inch steel tubing.
Just welded a 14" handle on it.
I use the shellholder held on the end with a piece of black electrical tape.
I have a big piece of birch log that i use to whack it on.
Works for me
 
colombe said:
I made one using a piece of 3/4 inch steel tubing.
Just welded a 14" handle on it.
I use the shellholder held on the end with a piece of black electrical tape.
I have a big piece of birch log that i use to whack it on.
Works for me
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The unit I made from brass, was purpose built to pull several thousand bullets/powder from 8x63 machine gun rounds.

I had a threaded "cap'' on hand and only needed to cut a hole large enough for the stem of the shell head holder to fit through and thread the end of the intertia puller to match.

I found that the interaction of the hard, stainless against the brass threads was causing binding issues, so turned one down out of Delrin composite plastic I have on hand. This worked much better and because I made the OD larger, it was much easier to spin off and on.

I drilled and tapped the hole for the handle and soldered the threads.

Made up a Delring handle as well.

I used that intertia puller to pull over 5000 bullets.

When I sold off the rest, I included the puller with them.
 
Henry Nierychlo said:
The RCBS inertia bullet puller is guaranteed for life. Contact them & I'm pretty sure they will send you a free replacement.

Regards, Henry
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well Henry I figured it would be, I sent a email with pictures of the broken puller, the word back today I have to send the broken one back registered post, when they receive it they will send a replacement, this will be the first time it costs money to get something replaced, its the way warranty works for items you buy from China, postage is too expensive in this case
 
laurencen said:
well Henry I figured it would be, I sent a email with pictures of the broken puller, the word back today I have to send the broken one back registered post, when they receive it they will send a replacement, this will be the first time it costs money to get something replaced, its the way warranty works for items you buy from China, postage is too expensive in this case
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Is that the response from the Canadian distributor (i.e. customerservcanada@bushnell.com)?
 
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