Bullet pullers

[G-Man WC]

I had four old boxes of 30-06 to pull.
So I bought a RCBS collet puller and it worked great with
no marks on the bullet. Very easy to use. -g

[OldShooter32]

I have a Forster press and somewhere found a disc bullet puller for .30 caliber bullets. It slides into the slot for the die locking ring and has flat steel "fingers" that grip the bullet as it is run up through the center hole. Pull down and the "fingers" close on the cannelure --or the side if there isn't one. Presto! Bullet pulled without marks. I usually dump and re-weigh the powder, but then just seat the new bullet and head for the range.

[Bill Steele]

...Quick one or two bullet removals is usually the kinetic (as long as it's not a SP rifle round as the force on the kinetic tends to mash them a bit)..

One aside is the RCBS hammer style puller has a foam pad in the nose to "catch" the bullet and stop and damage to the bullet. Come to think of it, that would be a pretty simple upgrade for any kinetic puller that didn't have one...

Hijack off.

[diveRN]

I don't pull that many bullets as I only load two different calibers and have pretty well found the 'right' recipe for each.

If I need to pull a bullet for whatever reason, I use the kinetic type (hammer) for pulling bullets.

I don't mess with the collets though, rather I just use the shell holder out of the press. It fits right in the end where the bullet and collet go and holds the shell perfectly for knocking the bullet free.

[popeye4]

Hornady collet puller works great. RCBS kinetic puller also works great, but my loading room is on the second floor of my workshop and I need to take the kinetic puller to a harder surface (like concrete) to get it to work reliably. The kinetic puller works for just about any caliber, the collet puller obviously needs the appropriately sized collet to work.