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Slooshark1

Slooshark1

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I was set up to reload in our shop up in Timmins but I needed some powder. I phoned a gun shop who's name I will keep to myself and asked them if they had any Reloader 25 powder in stock and they told me that they did. I drove an hour and a half to the gun store after work and picked up the pound of powder and chatted with the guy for a few minutes. I drove an hour and a half back to Timmins and got everything ready to reload. I went over my notes and set up my scale. I had neck sized all my brass. I weighed and loaded about 32 rounds. I checked the overall length. I cleaned them all and cycled them through the rifle in the shop and everything seemed to cycle pretty good. It was almost midnight and I started to clean up and put all of my things away. I went to empty the powder charger and that's when I noticed that the powder that I had loaded wasn't Reloader 25 it was Reloader 15. I tried to put the cartridges in my kinetic bullet puller but the cases are too fat to fit properly and I can't lock them in. What the heck do I donow? They are Barnes TSX bullets so I don't want to throw them away. If I were to fire them like that, I would likely disappear into a red mist. I labelled them very clearly so that I don't have an accident but I would like to see how I can pull these bullets without ruining them. I do use Reloader 15 for other calibres so I would certainly like to get the powder back. Before you start carving me for my mistake, I do realize that I should have looked at the container before reloading but hey, I didn't.

Any constructive advice?

Best regards,

Slooshark1
 
1. Don't shoot them
2. Pull the bullets.

They won't fit your Kinetic puller and you don't appear to have a collett puller. The best I can suggest is to place them in your press in a shellholder, move them up through the hole where the dies would go and gently grab them with pliers such as wire cutters in one of the grooves. Move the handle up and that should remove the bullet.
 
Remove your die from the top of your press. Put a round in the shell holder and raise it so it goes through the top of your press. Grab the bullet with something non marring like some pliers with a piece of leather in between, then lower your ram. That might get em.

Cheers
 
Good thing you noticed.....and that's not the first odd thing I hear about the gun shop "1.5 hours away from Timmins"

I cant think of anything else aside but what has already been suggested.

stay safe.
 
Pathfinder said:
Good thing you noticed.....and that's not the first odd thing I hear about the gun shop "1.5 hours away from Timmins"

I cant think of anything else aside but what has already been suggested.

stay safe.
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I don't know "that gun shop "1.5 hours away from Timmins", but how are they implicated?

You drove for 1.5 hrs and have another 1.5 hrs ahead of you, so naturally you look at the bottle before you leave - "this is Re15, not Re25". The mistake is noticed and home you go with the correct powder. If for some reason you fail to do that, then you check the bottle at home before you load "this is Re15, not Re25 - darn I should have checked". You fail to do that, then you simply ask on CGN how to remove bullets. "That gun shop 1.5 hours away from Timmins" remains irrelevant.
 
When I have a large number of rounds to pull, such as military ball that I want to convert to Mexican Match, I use a pair of wire strippers, the plyer type with the notches between the handles for different sizes of wire. This puts very small marks on the bullet when you pull the bullet. If you look around you can find a pair with wide flat handles that lay very flat on the top of the press. As stated above, put the cartridge in the shell holder, lay the tool on top of the press, raise the ram and grip the bullet just forward of the case mouth, then withdraw the bullet from the case using a steady smooth stroke to lower the ram.
 
I've used the RCBS hammer but wasnt really that happy with it. I've now moved to using the RCBS bullet puller with interchangeable collets. Works about 1 millions times better.

Had to pull about 50 130gr 270wsm TSX bullets last year when the box of load development ammo (5 or 6 different loads in one box) fell off the shooting bench.
 
Don't know why they won't seperate in an inertial puller. DON'T use the goofy aluminum split-ring/collet thing with the flimsy rubber band holding it all together. Simply use your die's shellholder instead - whack them on a nice stout chunk of straight cut firewood on end. They'll come out. Works on my .45-70, even with a hefty crimp from a Lee Factory crimp die, but the aluminum cartridge holder usually can't handle the pounding - that's why I switched to using a shellholder.
 
Thank you very much for the advice. I understand that it wasn't the gunshop's fault. I had phoned ahead and they put it aside and he even wrote RL 25 on the receipt. It was my mistake for loading it and I admit that. I just want to get the bullets out and get some RL 25 and do it right.

Thanks again,

Slooshark1
 
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