Pulled projectiles

[Blue]

Looking into buying some pulled projectiles, at one place they say the needed to be resized and that you can buy a die to do it. Would you do it if the projectiles were uber cheap?

ETA: they have ugly *** pullmarks allover them and they're roughly $100 per 4k

[Gunsrruss]

Blue,try....

Wideners.com, they have a bunch of pull down bullets...plus new ones that are reasonable. Mostly in .223

[TonyM]

Looking into buying some pulled projectiles, at one place they say the needed to be resized and that you can buy a die to do it. Would you do it if the projectiles were uber cheap?

ETA: they have ugly *** pullmarks allover them and they're roughly $100 per 4k

I'd probably pass.

Even though the price is good, I don't want to add another couple steps in my process.

Just call me lazy, but I already wish I had a automated bullet loader and that the RF100 and primer tube on my XL650 held 500 primers insted of the 100ish.

[elsolo]

I reload pulled bullets with .50BMG. I shove them through a resizing die first, just in case. LEE will make you a custom one for ~$30. They are fine and fun for plinking, when the performance/cost is beneficial.

[Blue]

I reload pulled bullets with .50BMG. I shove them through a resizing die first, just in case. LEE will make you a custom one for ~$30. They are fine and fun for plinking, when the performance/cost is beneficial.

I'm still on the fence. Alot of the pull marks look really bad. I don't shoot anything but for fun and plinking so maybe they'd work. I just don't want something that will come apart in my barrel and damage my gun or hurt someone.

[TonyM]

I'm still on the fence. Alot of the pull marks look really bad. I don't shoot anything but for fun and plinking so maybe they'd work. I just don't want something that will come apart in my barrel and damage my gun or hurt someone.

You don't want bullets that could hurt someone?

AIRSOOOOOOFT!

[kurac]

Try this guy http://www.gibrass.com/projectiles.html there may be some marks but so far it has not effected performance for me. I wouldn't shoot them out of a match grade rifle but for plinking purposes while using a surplus rifle they work just fine.

[sargenv]

I picked up some 223 - 55's from hi tech ammo before they sold out. My bullets have a vertical cut mark from where they were pulled, but I loaded these and they hit a 10" Steel plate at 200 yards if I was on target. I couldn't miss with them and my Mini-14 was happy shooting them. Before we go ragging on Mini'14's, this one was worked over by Accurate Systems in Colorado.. so the only thing stock is the receiver.. I intended initially to only use them for short range blasting ammo, but they've proven their worth out to 200 so who knows. At $100/4k, I'd get the sizing die and use em. I paid about $100/3k, so I think they'd be worth it with curent prices easily double on new bullets.

[Gunsrruss]

Also There Is....

www.patsreloading.com, they are a lot like G.I. brass.com...Only Pats has had more stuff lately. GI brass used to have tons of stuff,and between him and Pats I spent a fortune.

[elsolo]

I'm still on the fence. Alot of the pull marks look really bad. I don't shoot anything but for fun and plinking so maybe they'd work. I just don't want something that will come apart in my barrel and damage my gun or hurt someone.

Buy the resizing die, that will keep you safe. If any of them take too much force to shove through the die, don't use those.
I shoot resized bullets through a $3K rifle with a 215 grain powder charge, no worries. They are fine for plinking accuracy out to 600 yards.

[Blue]

Would you still buy them if they looked like this

[elsolo]

It looks like many, if not most of those would be unuseable.
If the price is right so that the remaining percent of them are still a good buy, then yes. (If they are 1/10 the price but you can use 15% of them)

You might want to find a different supplier that has collet pulled bullets that aren't all dented up, so you can actually use most of the bullets you buy.
I have bought from Pat's and Hi-Tech with success.

[dwtt]

That picture is pretty ugly. If you buy it, swage the better ones like elsolo recommends, and collect the rest for sale at the scrap yard.
I have bought pulled bullets from Pat's reloading and they look much better than the bullets in the picture above.

[Blue]

I'm gonna pass on the whole thing. As much as I would love to score uber cheap projectiles I have a feeling I wouldn't be able to use alot of those and the ones that I did use would cause problems.