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I;ve had an RCBS hammer bullet puller for years and have never had a problem . use a piece of wood on your table to smack it on . :kickInTheNuts:
 
"...a piece of wood on your table..." Too soft. Use a rock.
The inertia style are by far the easiest to use. Not quick, but easy to use.
 
A press mounted collet puller is actually the easiest to use, and far faster if you have any quantity of bullets to pull.
 
I must strongly disagree....

sunray said:
"...a piece of wood on your table..." Too soft. Use a rock.
The inertia style are by far the easiest to use. Not quick, but easy to use.
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I have the RCBS hammer and it works fine and I used it for years but it does not compare in ease of use to a collet style puller used in the press.

You can disassemble 10 cartridges with the collet in the time it takes to do one with the hammer. Also the powder stays nicely in the case and the bullet is not damaged. With the hammer, you have to fish the bullet out of the powder and muck around. The tip of the bullet can easily be damaged with the hammer too, even with padding in the base. I've found that a foam earplug works well for that.

There's no earsplitting noise and the case does not get distorted with the collet puller. With the hammer, the case neck quite often loses concentricity with the rest of the case.

The collet puller is more expensive and you have to get a seperate collet piece for each bullet diameter.

I think the hammer is fine but after using a Forster collet puller there is no going back. Its just slick and easy to use. If you have a lot of ammo to pull, the collet is the way to go for sure, no question.

Also, primers sometimes go off with the hammer type but this seems to be associated with loose primer pockets and is very rare. The powder doesn't ignite when this happens, at least not in the cases I've read about.

If you only expect to have to pull a few on rare occaisions and you don't want to spend much then a hammer is fine, otherwise, get a collet style. I think most of the suppliers make one.
 
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I also have a RCBS collet bullet puller and works very well. The collets are a little pricey, but worth it. I think they are around $16.00 or $ 17.00 dollars at least where I get them from.

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TwoTone said:
I have the RCBS hammer and it works fine and I used it for years but it does not compare in ease of use to a collet style puller used in the press.

You can disassemble 10 cartridges with the collet in the time it takes to do one with the hammer. Also the powder stays nicely in the case and the bullet is not damaged. With the hammer, you have to fish the bullet out of the powder and muck around. The tip of the bullet can easily be damaged with the hammer too, even with padding in the base. I've found that a foam earplug works well for that.

There's no earsplitting noise and the case does not get distorted with the collet puller. With the hammer, the case neck quite often loses concentricity with the rest of the case.

The collet puller is more expensive and you have to get a seperate collet piece for each bullet diameter.

I think the hammer is fine but after using a Forster collet puller there is no going back. Its just slick and easy to use. If you have a lot of ammo to pull, the collet is the way to go for sure, no question.

Also, primers sometimes go off with the hammer type but this seems to be associated with loose primer pockets and is very rare. The powder doesn't ignite when this happens, at least not in the cases I've read about.

If you only expect to have to pull a few on rare occaisions and you don't want to spend much then a hammer is fine, otherwise, get a collet style. I think most of the suppliers make one.
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Well said.

I'll add that if you polled anyone who does any amount of handloading, they likely started with a hammer type and got pissed off enough to spend the money on the collet!:D
 
cycbb486 said:
the Davidson style myself....
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They look like they might be useful. I've never used them but the don't look as fun as the collet.

Might not work so great on crimped or glued-in military stuff either, a quote from a supplier:

"These plier style bullet pullers are designed for soft seated bullets. They are not suitable for bullets that are crimped or tightly seated. "
 
I have both an Inertia puller and a collet puller.

If you have one round to dissasemble, the inertia puller is handy. If you have many to pull, the collet puller kicks the #### out of an Inertia puller.

I once pulled 100 7mm Rem Mag with my inertia puller and I went right out and bought a collet puller after that.
 
Can you guys share some more info on these collet pullers?

Does Lee make one or is there one for a Lee turret press?
Are the projectiles useable after they've been pulled?
What is the price range?
Are these so easy to use that an army guy can figure it out?
 
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