Kinetic bullet pullers

[Dogleg]

You can use the shellholders but…….there’s always a but…

Take a real close look at your rim and case head after you do it. There will likely be a couple of deep dents on the rim, and don’t be shocked if you can see the head is pulled into a bit of a horseshoe. When “designer” brass can be 5 bucks a case, that bugs me.

 

[209jones]

Don't even remember when I broke that last inertia puller I had, bought an RCBS, said to self just go buy it again if you ever need it, been a couple of times with cast bullets that it maybe would have been nicer to use. Would have bought another were I doing stuff like pistol rounds, but, collet pullers work far better for rifle rounds.

 

[Dogleg]

I don’t iknow if it fits into the thread or not but I’m going to tell a kinetic puller story. Had a thread on it awhile ago.

Used those things for years, #####ed about collets wearing out but it fun to ##### about something. After I moved I finally got around to pulling down pails of suspect, too hot and mystery ammo that I simpley didn’t know what it was or was for guns I didn’t have anymore. When you’re talking pails worth salvagng brass and bullets seemed like worthwhile pursuit. Good winter job for a retired guy. After days that turned into weeks spread across months. Between snowmobiling of course, its not like a full time job.

Anyways; between seemingly endless but intermittent tapitity tap tap I was surprised by a tapity tap BANG.. A lot of people would be concerned by that and I guess I’m one of those guys. Primer went off and made a perfect primer sized hole in a 14 foot ceiling. Since I was sitting on a stool and beating it on the floor that thing had to pass right past my head is disconcerting.

Had a thread going on that a year or 2 ago. I’ve gone through maybe 5 or 6 of these things over the years but its hard to touch one now. Life is too short and you’re a long time time dead. It ain’t the odds its the stakes.

 

[bearhunter]

You can use the shellholders but…….there’s always a but…

Take a real close look at your rim and case head after you do it. There will likely be a couple of deep dents on the rim, and don’t be shocked if you can see the head is pulled into a bit of a horseshoe. When “designer” brass can be 5 bucks a case, that bugs me.

not on any 0f mine

 

[Dogleg]

not on any 0f mine

Good for you; I sure don’t wish bad on anyone. My own experience has been different though: First came to my attention when I was on a marathon load development for a Mark V Accumark in 270 Weatherby which involved many loads that were too hot and needed to be pulled. Turned out that I started getting failures to extract on loads that weren’t even close to hot. Of course that was cause for concern but at the moment my mind as all occupied with the fact that my Accumark wasn’t shooting so not working was secondary problem. Turns out it was a bedding problem anyway. Once that was addressed, function becke
the next issue. I’m allittle slow sometmes, and bought a new extractor. $5.68 wth 20 bucks shipping .Didn’t help,so I eventually put my readjg glasses on annnnnd found that half of my rims were beaten halfway off. Easy fix, throw all those cases n the bush and quit doing that.
Not saying its going happen to everyone, but it happened to me. The orgnal collets wouldn’t have done that. The brass I buggered up cost far more than the kinetic puller and more than the RCBC collet puller I bought after.

 

[156821]

I don’t iknow if it fits into the thread or not but I’m going to tell a kinetic puller story. Had a thread on it awhile ago.

Used those things for years, #####ed about collets wearing out but it fun to ##### about something. After I moved I finally got around to pulling down pails of suspect, too hot and mystery ammo that I simpley didn’t know what it was or was for guns I didn’t have anymore. When you’re talking pails worth salvagng brass and bullets seemed like worthwhile pursuit. Good winter job for a retired guy. After days that turned into weeks spread across months. Between snowmobiling of course, its not like a full time job.

Anyways; between seemingly endless but intermittent tapitity tap tap I was surprised by a tapity tap BANG.. A lot of people would be concerned by that and I guess I’m one of those guys. Primer went off and made a perfect primer sized hole in a 14 foot ceiling. Since I was sitting on a stool and beating it on the floor that thing had to pass right past my head is disconcerting.

Had a thread going on that a year or 2 ago. I’ve gone through maybe 5 or 6 of these things over the years but its hard to touch one now. Life is too short and you’re a long time time dead. It ain’t the odds its the stakes.

I too had a primer detonate while using mine. Hit the ceiling too. Scared me pretty bad. How the load never went off I don’t know. I had a thread on here years ago about the situation. I believe a piece of media ended up under the primer and caused it. Really got my attention lol.

 

[Dogleg]

I too had a primer detonate while using mine. Hit the ceiling too. Scared me pretty bad. How the load never went off I don’t know. I had a thread on here years ago about the situation. I believe a piece of media ended up under the primer and caused it. Really got my attention lol.

I think the powder not going off is matter of temperature and time. I can blow the dust off a piece of steel with my cutting torch, but give it a bit of time and it’ll cut through things I can’t shoot through.
I wonder about things sometimes (because I have that kind of time) is the primer pocket the worlds shortest barrel? Right after that does the primer turn into the worlds shortest rocket?
On an unrelated note, one might not #### himself when a primer goes off; but as friend pointed out to me, a teaspoon is a lot when its in your shorts.

 

[bearhunter]

Good for you; I sure don’t wish bad on anyone. My own experience has been different though: First came to my attention when I was on a marathon load development for a Mark V Accumark in 270 Weatherby which involved many loads that were too hot and needed to be pulled. Turned out that I started getting failures to extract on loads that weren’t even close to hot. Of course that was cause for concern but at the moment my mind as all occupied with the fact that my Accumark wasn’t shooting so not working was secondary problem. Turns out it was a bedding problem anyway. Once that was addressed, function becke
the next issue. I’m allittle slow sometmes, and bought a new extractor. $5.68 wth 20 bucks shipping .Didn’t help,so I eventually put my readjg glasses on annnnnd found that half of my rims were beaten halfway off. Easy fix, throw all those cases n the bush and quit doing that.
Not saying its going happen to everyone, but it happened to me. The orgnal collets wouldn’t have done that. The brass I buggered up cost far more than the kinetic puller and more than the RCBC collet puller I bought after.

I use a 20 pound block of lead to whack my inertia hammer against. Maybe that's why I don't get the dents.

I only use an inertia puller for bullets I can't grasp the Ogive on with my press mounted collet pullers.

I was given a great little tool from Ganderite, they're no longer available, so I won't mention the name.

It has four leaf springs to grast the bullet, and even grasps on the rounded ogive surfaces of deep seated surplus ammo which as often as not has some sort of sealant between the case neck and bullet. It does leave small marks on the bullets, but they don't seem to effect accuracy.

 

[MRP]

Anyways; between seemingly endless but intermittent tapitity tap tap I was surprised by a tapity tap BANG.. A lot of people would be concerned by that and I guess I’m one of those guys. Primer went off and made a perfect primer sized hole in a 14 foot ceiling. Since I was sitting on a stool and beating it on the floor that thing had to pass right past my head is disconcerting.

If a primer go's off it's because the primer was not set in to the bottom of the pocket. Or you have a loose pocket and the primer jumps up a bit when you strike it and the next strike is a boom. I'm sure it has happened but I've never heard of it igniting the pouder, more heat and presher is needed for that. The anvil kinda blocks the flash hole and not enough heat/pressure is developed to melt the anvil before the primer ejects itself.