Pulling cast pistol bullets...question

[icehunter121]

Buddy of mine who shall get a blast real soon gave me a bunch of 357 brass. He assured me that they were trimmed and such. Ya right...upon mixing them in with my known trimmed cases and reloading them I now have 60 or so that cant be chambered in my 357 SW...so question is...is there any way to pull the slugs after crimping them in or should I just slowly scrap them and get some new brass and save myself some head aches??

 

[t-star]

first off, do you have an inertia bullet puller? it may take a few more hits to overcome the crimp, but it CAN be done- if that isn't fast enough for you, or if it's too tight, take a jeweler's blade screwdriver and pry the mouth of the case open a little bit- you could aslo drill into the bullet and put an easy-out in there- and no, the thing WONT GO OFF unless you HIT THE PRIMER
as far as the brass goes, it COULD very well be the reason it won't fit in yours is a DIFFERENT CHAMBER- that's the reason lee makes a FACTORY CRIMP DIE- it sizes all brass to the same factory dimention- and WTF is up with TRIMMING PISTOL CASES????- i've been shooting some 40 years and NEVER TRIMMED A PISTOL CASE YET

 

[jethunter]

Use a bullet puller and you can reuse the bullets and the brass. Inertai type is in the $25 range. If you reload you need a bullet puller anyway.

 

[VICIOUS]

HI; Just get a bullet puller and pound them out. If you reload you NEED a puller. As to trimming pistol brass , if you want good accuracy you need consisant crimps. This means brass all the same length, I trim all New brass to the same length and chanfer the case mouth, before loading or adding to my stock of brass. YEA it sucks doing this but you get out what you put into it.

 

[easyrider604]

....... I now have 60 or so that cant be chambered in my 357 SW...so question is...is there any way to pull the slugs after crimping them in or should I just slowly scrap them and get some new brass and save myself some head aches??

What exactly do you mean by

cant be chambered in my 357 SW?

Pictures of some of these 60 reloads might help.

Do you mean these reloads are too tight to fit in the chambers?

I have a .357 Lee Factory Crimp die and and this die crimps and re-sizes the case and bullet to the proper size to fit any chamber on my .357 Rugers and S&Ws. I normally do not use this FCD, BTW. Only when I have a cartridge "fit" or "feed" problem.

 

[hk33ka1]

I never bothered to trim any of my .357 magnum brass. It's unlikely case length is the issue.

 

[icehunter121]

I never bothered to trim any of my .357 magnum brass. It's unlikely case length is the issue.

Wrong..its a case issue. I was wondering about a inertia bullet puller and if it would work on a crimped shell.To me the brass is to long so when you crimp it,the mouth of the case is set back and bulges out so that rounds cant be chambered.This is a S+W custom,686-3 limited edition with only 1000 of them being made.Chambers are really tight on it. All of the cast slugs are my own and run thru my own sizing and lube die,so it can only be the brass left in question.

 

[saskgunowner101]

Too much crimp??

 

[hk33ka1]

This could be a case where the Lee FCD post sizing might help then.

What tool are you using to trim? Will it be slow for you to go through and trim/check all of them after?

You could just raise the cartridge in a press and grab the bullet with pliers to pull it while lowering the ram. Re cast those slugs next time.

The inertia puller will work.

 

[joe-nwt]

So what you are saying is you trimmed your brass, set the crimp die to your brass, and now regular length brass gets over-crimped to the point to where it bulges the case to where it won't chamber in the gun? Is this correct?

The FCD should work.

I'm with t-star, life is too short to trim pistol brass.....