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Until it happens there is no way. I've use an inertia puller for close to 30 years and last spring I had a round blow up. Luckily I was not standing directly over the puller when I hit it on the floor. Bullet came out, unburned powder went everywhere, it blowed the puller body into, just behind the handle, the screw ring was broken in 2 pieces and the 3 collets? were scattered on the floor. The bullet was still in the front end of the puller, but the brass was out on the floor. Parts of the puller were scattered all over the room. The primer was still in the case, so I punched it out with a Lee universal depriming die. The primer had went off on impact, yet there was no indentation of any kind on the back of the primer.

Never say never!

For stubborn bullets .
Probably already mentioned , but throw it out there anyway .
Set your seating die up till the seating stem touched the bullet , lower ram , turn stem in another 3/4 turn and seat bullet just a shade deeper .
Go through all you are intending to pull and then set your collet or what ever device you’re using and start pulling , the slight seating helps break the bullet loose on stubborn cartridges.
Kenneth

I have made several of those, one for each caliber I have. 3/8 aluminum plate, 5/8"x 3". Drill a hole the size of the bullet. About 1/2"from one end centered. Band saw up the middle from the other end to the hole.

Place round in shell holder, lift ram. Fit over bullet when it comes up thru the press. Squeeze other end with channel locks or vise grips. Pull ram down. Out comes the bullet. Doesn't cost $40 either

Like others have said regarding kinetic pullers

put a foam plug in the bottom
bump the bullets down a several thou into the case with a seating die
use a hardwood endgrain, or a big chunk of lead. that tiny bit of give saves your puller

I made one using PVC and it works good
I also made a homade Grip-N-Pull years ago with hardwood. didn't work too well. (gonna try that one again, but using grit embedded into the wood hole for grip)
So made one with steel. worked good

Next time I get a "rountuit" ima use thin pieces of leaf spring to make more G-N-Ps for each caliber, so I can have the hole very near the end for max leverage

^This in spades^

Kinetics take forever.

I have rcbs bullet puller die but that grip and pull looks like a good back-up. I had two inertia styles have the plastic crack so I went to the rcbs on the press

Had a primer pop out of the end of a case on me too with my RCBS inertia puller, but didn't ignite the charge, about 10 years ago. I didn't use it for a long time after that. I later found out about pushing the bullet in a little to break the neck to bullet adhesion which helps a lot.

That’s the quickest and easiest way that I have found when I’m doing more than one or two.

RCBS puller w/ collets and occasionally a kinetic. Seating bullets slightly deeper on old loads definitely helps.

My most used method