Kinetic Bullet Puller Experience - Please Help

I dunno, I never seem to have trouble with the cheap blue kinetic puller that I got for cheap off the EE. Seriously, just whack it on the floor. With the right arc, you don't even need to whack it hard. And I've pulled dozens of CAST boolits, that are softer than your average jacketed, with no apparent damage.
 
I have both an RCBS and a Frankford Arsenal. Both have worked great for me. After the first round pulled in the Frankford Arsenal I noticed it damaged the tip on my Barnes T-TSX and I just stuffed some kleenex in the bottom to cushion the bullet and never had any more damaged bullets with it. I ended up breaking the collet and bought the RCBS one. Which has a felt pad at the bottom of it so you don't damage bullets. Which is where I found out I was using the Frankford one wrong. Oops. I didn't know I was using it wrong. It didn't come with instructions and it worked on pulling bullets the way I was using it. But with the RCBS one, I realized I had the collet upside down the whole time. I had the rounded side down because the lip on the puller is rounded. Boy did I feel dumb. My wife even laughed at me about it. So now I have 2 pullers and both work great (now that I'm using them correctly). I've used them for many purposes. Disassembling damaged rounds found in factory ammo. Reusing powder and bullets in different cartridges (.308 to .30-06). Pulling bullets that were seating too deep and just decommissioning really old rounds I came across. I even used them to salvage the powder and primers out of 200 rounds of .223 Rem I loaded up just days before I ended up selling my .223 rifle.
 
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