I just had a need to pull some .577NE rounds. They won't fit in a kinetic puller nor my RCBS collet puller. After looking around a bit, I clamped them in my action wrench and used like a kinetic. Worked like a charm. I know not a lot of guys need to pull .577NE rounds, but some do and I don't see why it wouldn't work for other big round too like the .577 Snider and maybe shotgun slugs, but I have not tried that.
Bullet puller for large rounds
- Thread starter Casull
- Start date
- Location
- The Conservative part of Ontario
I did some big rounds a while back by sticking them in the impact hammer sans collet, and putting ductape over the top of the case to keep it there.
They won't fit in the hammer even without the collet, that was where my problem came from. By the way, throw the collet out of your kinetic hammer away and slip the round into it's proper shellholder and put that in top of your kinetic hammer and put the lid on. Way faster and more convenient than those rubber rings and so on, try it.
Rob
Rob
I had to take apart some 505 Gibbs rounds. I just put thme in the press with the shellholder, without dies, and then lifted them up. No problem in grabbing the bullet with a pair of pliers and just pulling the shell down with the piston. Bullets came right out and with some masking tape on the pliers, the bullets were barely marked!
I tried that too, it has worked in the past with .50s and so on and I think it would work with long bullets, say 900 grain .577s. But these were short little 555 grain lead bullets and nothing but a point stuck out and they had a heavy crimp to boot. I though it was going to be tough, until I saw the action wrench hanging there.
- Location
- Hillbilly shack in the boonies
What I have done is remove the die from the press, and cycled the loaded round on the shell holder , and when it popped up through where the die sits, I held it there with pliers and cycled the ram(raised the handle)minimal damage to the bullet.
Frank
Frank
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Gibbs505 said:
Rather than the pliers, try a pair of wire strippers - the pliers type with the stripping groves between the handles. The grooves are sharp enough to bite well into the bullet, but do not deform or scratch it, and the tool is flat so sits nice and level on the top of your press.
- Location
- Hillbilly shack in the boonies
Thats what I used, the cutting part of the pliers, it held nice with just small marks.
Frank
Frank
I got it the same way Andy. Broke too many collets and happened onto the shellholder as an alternative, and it works like a charm.
The plier just don't have anything to grab in this case. A much larger kinetic hammer would be good, the .577 bullet won't even enter the top of a standard one. So, in this case, the action wrench actually became a kinetic hammer puller.
The plier just don't have anything to grab in this case. A much larger kinetic hammer would be good, the .577 bullet won't even enter the top of a standard one. So, in this case, the action wrench actually became a kinetic hammer puller.
