So I got an idea to try this today. And so far it seems highly promising.
I've used my Lyman inertia bullet puller for a long time now by bashing it onto a hardwood block and occasionally against the anvil face on my bench vise. But I've got a big batch of bullets that I need to pull and thought I'd try using a dead blow hammer as the striking anvil.
I gotta say so far it seems quite promising. I'm getting one and two hit separations where the other stuff takes two to four good smacks.
The way I'm using the dead blow is I'm holding the head turned mostly sideways but with the face I'm using rotated slightly down. Then I'm swinging the Lyman puller sideways and slightly up to smack it against the face of the deadblow. There's a lot less shock to my hand this way but the bullets are popping out with what seems like less hits.
I'm holding the deadblow this way so that the lead shot inside is somewhat more resting against the face I'm striking with the Lyman puller instead of being on the other side away from the face if I were to just hold it normally and swing down onto the top face
I tried a few pulls on the other things and my impression so far is that the deadblow seems to work easier than the big heavy block of wood or even the face of the bench vise. And it's certainly putting less shock into my hand.
If you have a dead blow handy and need to pop some bad reloads give it a try and let me know what you think.
I've used my Lyman inertia bullet puller for a long time now by bashing it onto a hardwood block and occasionally against the anvil face on my bench vise. But I've got a big batch of bullets that I need to pull and thought I'd try using a dead blow hammer as the striking anvil.
I gotta say so far it seems quite promising. I'm getting one and two hit separations where the other stuff takes two to four good smacks.
The way I'm using the dead blow is I'm holding the head turned mostly sideways but with the face I'm using rotated slightly down. Then I'm swinging the Lyman puller sideways and slightly up to smack it against the face of the deadblow. There's a lot less shock to my hand this way but the bullets are popping out with what seems like less hits.
I'm holding the deadblow this way so that the lead shot inside is somewhat more resting against the face I'm striking with the Lyman puller instead of being on the other side away from the face if I were to just hold it normally and swing down onto the top face
I tried a few pulls on the other things and my impression so far is that the deadblow seems to work easier than the big heavy block of wood or even the face of the bench vise. And it's certainly putting less shock into my hand.
If you have a dead blow handy and need to pop some bad reloads give it a try and let me know what you think.