Volume Disassembly?

Inertial puller, or a collet type puller in a press. Former is cheaper, latter is faster. Cases, powder and bullets would be salvaged for reuse.
 
These are the possibly sqib loads from the disaster thread?

Dunno how the collet puller would grip, but the side cutter idea looks like a winner.

Me, I'd probably find a nice backstop that shows the hits easily, and some interesting reactive targets, and spend an afternoon working through the lot, slowly, watching the hits.

Cheers
Trev
 
I would say an inertia puller, but if you have 200+ rounds, it will get tiring after awhile.

I pulled 100 7mm Rem Mag that way and would not do it again.

If they have a collet for the Collet Puller for those, then that is the way I would go.
 
I do not think a collet puller will work on plated bullets. I have had good success using a large diameter wire stripper plier in the same manner as described above for side cutters. They do a lot less damage to the bullet.
 
Roll crimped rounds don't take too easy to inertia bullet pullers. You do a lot of banging to get the bullet out.
 
who says you need to do it all at once? spread it out over 3 or 4 nights, say an hour a piece, and take only the bullet and powder -notice i said powder as well- you don't want "open" cases with powder in them floating around- either return it to the can , resevoir, or dispose of it- then put the brass in a single stage press with a decapping /resizing die( remember, it takes a SHARP BLOW to detonate a primer-pressing it out isn't going to make it go boom) and either empty your spent primer cup, or block off the feed so you can capture the primer and you're back to square 1
 
If the concern is squib loads and not overcharges, I would just shake them and listen for the powder. If you hear powder, shoot'em. Disassemble otherwise.
 
kombayotch said:
If the concern is squib loads and not overcharges, I would just shake them and listen for the powder. If you hear powder, shoot'em. Disassemble otherwise.
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for that to work, there has to some room in the case for the powder to make that noise- i've just done a bunch of 44 mags and there is no noise - the only way to know if they're anywhere near right is to 1) check for powder as you make the round2) weigh it against a known round- basically, i weigh all my rounds, seperate the uppers and lowers, and then check it against what the total should be- ie a federal 44 mag case weighs 120 grains, roughly, the slug is 240 grains, and the powder is 9/10 grains and the primer is roughly 3- that's about 373 total- a double charge would weigh 383, and a squib would be 364- see how that works?
 
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for that to work, there has to some room in the case for the powder to make that noise- i've just done a bunch of 44 mags and there is no noise - the only way to know if they're anywhere near right is to 1) check for powder as you make the round2) weigh it against a known round- basically, i weigh all my rounds, seperate the uppers and lowers, and then check it against what the total should be- ie a federal 44 mag case weighs 120 grains, roughly, the slug is 240 grains, and the powder is 9/10 grains and the primer is roughly 3- that's about 273 total- a double charge would weigh 283, and a squib would be 264- see how that works?
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I follow your reasoning but I think you mean a correctly loaded round should weigh 373 grains, not 273. Sorry, just been picky.
 
hey what happened?- i typed in 373 and 383 and it magically changed to some kind of screw up- i watch the keys when i type - i'm no touch typist- must be something wrong with either my board or the figgin server- anyway despite the poor math, what i did was to take a average of weights by case by manufacturer and load from there- you aim for the middle and re-process the highs and lows- for instace the winchester western runs about 110 grains, the federal runs about 120, and the r-p runs somewhere in between- i segregate by manufacturer, as you can see there's as much as 10 grains difference between cases- that's enough for a squib or double charge to go undetected
 
t-star said:
for that to work, there has to some room in the case for the powder to make that noise- i've just done a bunch of 44 mags and there is no noise - the only way to know if they're anywhere near right is to 1) check for powder as you make the round2) weigh it against a known round- basically, i weigh all my rounds, seperate the uppers and lowers, and then check it against what the total should be- ie a federal 44 mag case weighs 120 grains, roughly, the slug is 240 grains, and the powder is 9/10 grains and the primer is roughly 3- that's about 373 total- a double charge would weigh 383, and a squib would be 364- see how that works?
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Lol! Yes, I'm very familiar with weighing rounds. And yes, it doesn't work if your case is completely full. If you're filling up a 357 mag or 44 mag case with powder, that should definitely be measurable. Weighing doesn't always work when you have light charges and components that vary a lot though (sloppy lead bullets).
 
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