This just happened to me. Scary reloading incident.

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I bought the whole set. I put some thin wall hose over the handles. The edges dig in if your doing a few cartridges.
If you seat a bit deep you can pull the bullet out just a smidge and redo.

Your welcome.
 
Slooshark1 said:
I've never even seen a collet puller before. Maybe it's time to go shopping...
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I started with hammer puller way back when. I hated that thing as it was never easy to get bullets for release. It finally broke so I started shopping as you are. Before buying I borrowed an RCBS collet puller and it worked fine. I ended up buying a Hornady collet puller and it works great better easier faster than the RCBS. BULLETS COME OUT FAST AND UNMARKED!

I very much recommend the Hornady collet puller.
 
I'm guessing in rare cases the inertia/shock of the blow might break the "pill" primer compound in the primer and set the pieces off against each other. Using lighter taps on a piece of wood instead of concrete might dampen the shock and reduce the risk of breakage and ignition.
 
Sometimes we get complacent, thanks for the reminder, need to wear safety glasses. I am glad that you are not hurt.

I'm currently using an RCBS bullet puller mounted on a press.
 
I haven't read all the posts in this thread but a few caught my attention. How does a primer get out of the hammer puller and into the ceiling for example? Mine has a rather robust cover threaded over the cartridge.
If I have any cartridges to take apart it is definitely the RCBS hammer puller I'll be using. A little slow and a lot of work in my opinion but the RCBS collet puller is an ineffective waste of money. I was expecting good things of the collet puller when I bought it due to good things said on these forums. Waste of time and money, I couldn't get it to pull many bullets and those it did pull were very damaged. You're better off with a pair of pliers than a collet puller as far as my experience shows.
 
Eagleye said:
The collet puller is one of the main reasons I keep my RCBS Rockchucker press.
99% of my loading/seating is done on one of my 2 CO-AX presses, but they do not
work well with collet pullers.
I have an inertia puller, but it very seldom gets any use. Dave.
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Same here. I keep a Lee single stage around even though I use a Coax for all my real work. It just sits there and gets used to pull bullets with my RCBS collet puller, and for my .338 Lapua as it's big enough to work on them conveniently.

I used a hammer type once or twice, thought it was just a poorly conceived idea and bought a collet puller. Threw the hammer type out... made me nervous from the start.
 
Greg S said:
I haven't read all the posts in this thread but a few caught my attention. How does a primer get out of the hammer puller and into the ceiling for example? Mine has a rather robust cover threaded over the cartridge.
If I have any cartridges to take apart it is definitely the RCBS hammer puller I'll be using. A little slow and a lot of work in my opinion but the RCBS collet puller is an ineffective waste of money. I was expecting good things of the collet puller when I bought it due to good things said on these forums. Waste of time and money, I couldn't get it to pull many bullets and those it did pull were very damaged. You're better off with a pair of pliers than a collet puller as far as my experience shows.
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They are open on the cap,
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Greg S said:
I haven't read all the posts in this thread but a few caught my attention. How does a primer get out of the hammer puller and into the ceiling for example? Mine has a rather robust cover threaded over the cartridge.
If I have any cartridges to take apart it is definitely the RCBS hammer puller I'll be using. A little slow and a lot of work in my opinion but the RCBS collet puller is an ineffective waste of money. I was expecting good things of the collet puller when I bought it due to good things said on these forums. Waste of time and money, I couldn't get it to pull many bullets and those it did pull were very damaged. You're better off with a pair of pliers than a collet puller as far as my experience shows.
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Try the Hornady before you judge them all, have used mine to pull thousands of bullets without marking them up.
It's the fastest most efficient way I've found.
 
It might be a one in a million chance; but if you are beating it on the floor while sitting in a chair you are more or less pointing the primer at your head.

If you are sitting on your chair and beating it on something on your bench, its still one in a million but not pointing at your head. NPIAYH is better.
 
Dogleg said:
It might be a one in a million chance; but if you are beating it on the floor while sitting in a chair you are more or less pointing the primer at your head.

If you are sitting on your chair and beating it on something on your bench, its still one in a million but not pointing at your head. NPIAYH is better.
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yup agree totally. I've pulled hundreds of bullets with a "hammer" blow to the cement floor without an incident but because of this thread I now have an 18" stump of wood that is almost shoulder high that I use now as a blow stopper
...if we don't learn from others ....
 
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