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Kinetic bullet puller? They are cheap.

Cheap, yes. Dangerous, also yes. You might pull hundreds of bullets before a primer fires but when it does, it if touches off the powder, that's when the fun begins.
A collet puller just doesn't cost that much more and it's far safer.

Agreed. I use a collet puller for most things. I have a kinetic puller but I only use it if I don't happen to have a collet and shell holder ... which generally means only if I'm doing something new I'm not fully set up for or helping someone else with something I don't ever plan to do twice.

I use both types. A collet can't grip those short flatnose 40 bullets, they are round the whole way from case mouth to the nose. They had too much neck tension for a kinetic. Seating them deeper may have worked. He should have just put them in the river