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Very scary, glad you are ok. I bought one of those RCBS hammer things, used it one time and thought, "There must be a better way." Which is the RCBS collet puller...
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Funny thing, I have blown up more guns than kinetic pullers... Those Colts come unglued pretty easy. Stick with Uberti. Travis
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Funny thing, I have blown up more guns than kinetic pullers... I've never blown up a gun and this my 1st time with the puller that I've been using for 40 years. It's now retired. Once is more than enough.
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had a primer tube on a dillion blow yrs ago.
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I never fail to be amazed at the IQ deficiency on this forum!!
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easiest way- put the cartridge in the press, run it up through the press and grab the bullet with side cutter pliers. pull down on the handle and the pliers will stop against the press. gently pull down and the bullet comes right out. no damage to the bullet. I use this method, but it leaves a mark and I dispose of the bullet. Cheap insurance to pull safely, and use a new bullet.
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I've always pulled with a Kinetic puller, gives one reason to rethink that process.
Thanks.
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Cabelas called. I went to their site and put in a review on kinetic pullers saying they're dangerous. Their cust svc dept called for details and they say they're passing it on to their marketing dept.
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God bless Texas-----------------------
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Only scary time I had reloading was reloading trap loads on my Dillon 900. Somehow a live round had gotten in with the empties in the automatic feed. Being "nose heavy" with a load of shot in place, it went down the feeder tube nose first. When the decapping pin hit the primer...well, I was through loading for the evening. There was no damage done, the case blew out (banana peeled) from the case head to the bottom of the shot charge and it made a louder noise than you want to hear in your shop when you're reloading, but no damage done.
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I'm sure thankful for this thread. I decided when I started putting together what I needed for reloading to get a collet type puller instead of a kinetic puller.
I've made up some dummy rounds and now I guess I'll practice pulling bullets from them before I need to pull bullets from a live round.
Thanks for the thread.
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Rock Chuck,
Thank God that you weren't injured.
I agree 100% with 16bore. I have used RCBS collet bullet puller w/o a single problem. What's better is that bullets are not damaged, and there is no mess. Just dump powder in a suitable container and the case is ready to load again.
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I had some 300 WSM rounds that were too high in pressure. I was pulling the bullets to redo them, using an RCBS kinetic puller. I was happily tapping away on a brick when a primer fired. It blew out of the primer pocket and flew across the room. The bullet was about 3/4 of the way out so there wasn't any powder near the primer so it didn't ignite. It scares me to think what would have happened if this had happened on the 1st blow when the powder was back against the primer.
I think I'll go shopping for a collet type puller. I've pulled a lot of bullets over the years with this thing without incident but I'll admit that banging on a live round has always made me nervous. Wow, I gotta say I've never heard of that happening. I can understand the pucker factor...bet you had to bear down for a good while to chit your britches back out...and then change. SOOOO glad it wasn't worse.
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Actually not on my bench. I do a vis check with a light to make sure all the powder is out (it often isn't) and then neck size again with the decapping pin out.
I replace valve cover gaskets every 50K, if they don't need them sooner...
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Rock Chuck,
Thank God that you weren't injured.
I agree 100% with 16bore. I have used RCBS collet bullet puller w/o a single problem. What's better is that bullets are not damaged, and there is no mess. Just dump powder in a suitable container and the case is ready to load again. I resize them after dumping the powder with no decapping pin. I figure the bullet has stretched the neck enough to give an uneven tension.
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Actually not on my bench. I do a vis check with a lighter to make sure all the powder is out (it often isn't) and then neck size again with the decapping pin out. Smart guy...
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And I also clean up spilled powder with a propane torch..
I replace valve cover gaskets every 50K, if they don't need them sooner...
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Faster than a vacuum and eliminates the chance of a primer detonating in the roller of the vacuum...
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... Wow, I gotta say I've never heard of that happening. I can understand the pucker factor...bet you had to bear down for a good while to chit your britches back out...and then change. SOOOO glad it wasn't worse. I believe that it was in an old copy of Handloader that I saw a picture of a kinetic puller that had gone to pieces.
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WOW! I have probably pulled 2000/3000 bullets with a kinetic puller and never a problem. Guess it's time to retire it. Seems I've been lucky - so far.
Ironically, I have 5 collet pullers. Looks like they're going to be installed in my Hollywood turret press.
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