Bullet pulling en masse

We pulled over 100,000 rounds of the CBC 7.62x51 ammo. It had the gun blow ups with the occasional round with pistol powder.

We used one of these. Pulled a round every 3 seconds. When you shove a round up from the bottom, it pops the previous pulled bullet out the top.

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Donny Fenn1 said:
so its a recall why not have the manufacturer replace it?
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This. Why waste your time fixing someone elses negligence? Plus how are you going to reload them without reintroducing a bad case of the boom booms. You going to use your own powder or take a gamble that you can detect w 100 percent accuracy which rounds are defective?
 
Ganderite said:
We pulled over 100,000 rounds of the CBC 7.62x51 ammo. It had the gun blow ups with the occasional round with pistol powder.

We used one of these. Pulled a round every 3 seconds. When you shove a round up from the bottom, it pops the previous pulled bullet out the top.

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Could you tell us more about this nifty little tool?
 
freezer filler said:
It would be a pretty simple diy project to make too (Grip-N-Pull), but I have to agree it might deform them
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Technically yes. And certainly easier with the holes that are closer to the bending pivot and farther from the hand doing the gripping. But it would still have more feel for what is going on than I have with my Hornady collet setup.

I tried to get some "feel" out of the Hornady by setting it so the lever didn't want to cam over center as easily. But it was then a fine line between not enough force and still having enough to slightly mar the bullet.

For my needs that was fine. I was pulling bullets that had become corroded when the cat pee'ed on them (don't ask). Being open backed they are going to be melted down to make some .38-55 bullets for another gun so at least not a total loss. But obviously I didn't care if they were deformed or not at that point.

And yes, for anyone with a drill press and some other basic handtools it would be pretty easy to make something like that. The trick would be to determine the optimum size of hole for each bullet.
 
My parts man and I pulled a bunch of those 7.62x51 years ago. We had two collet pullers set up at our shop. We did two or three crates.
 
I suspect that the Lee version uses the same method of a cone locking collet to grab the bullets just like that one of Ganderite's. It acts like a one way Chinese finger puzzle for bullets.
 
The LEE patent shows it is a tight fitting wire clip that slips over the bullet on the upstroke and wedge into a taper on the downstroke.

That video was 6 years ago, nothing since
 
It depends what you're pulling. I tried using a collet puller on a 7.62x54R and it was disastrous. Powder everywhere. The hammer style worked best for that. I imagine collet pullers work best on factory rounds or brass cases rounds.
 
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