5.56 pulling conundrum!

[Madmox]

So, I had several hundred lake city 5.56 rounds given to me that somehow had the bullets pushed back into the brass. Anyone have any genius ideas on how to get it out to scavenge the load? I have tried a kinetic puller and really doesn't work well. And if the bullets can't come out without destroying something what gets sacrificed? The brass or the bullet? Anyone have any solutions?

[BruinGuy]

Now that's what I call setback! If it's only those few just use the impact puller and go to town on them...don't give up until they do. Not sure a collet puller can get some of those. Then again, if it's only half a dozen, that's about $2 worth of ammo, so...

[Madmox]

There are probably 3 or 400 of them :/ certainly no shortage of them in any case... or maybe there are a "shortage of them in the case"... oh man. bad joke

[74c5]

Maybe that is why, every once in awhile, someone build an AR with a 4 inch barrel.

[emptybottle151]

I would rather keep the bullet instead of the case.

[CK_32]

When with a kenetic pulled it doesn't work man those must be crimped. If your not saving the brass get a dremal and cut the cases and split them open, save the powder and bullets

[MountainFF]

your not worried about ignition using a dremel?
It takes an aggressive kinetic whack to get em out.
If they were given to you, how long were they sitting around? in that condition the powder was probably exposed to what ever the storage environment was.

[foxtrotuniformlima]

When I use the kinetic puller, I need to hammer it on either the concrete lab floor or the cast iron top of my table saw.

[milotrain]

When I use the kinetic puller, I need to hammer it on either the concrete lab floor or the cast iron top of my table saw.

I thought kinetic pullers were gimmicks until I ran one against a 1/4" steel plate on a concrete floor. Instant success, or at least three hit success. I don't bother with collet pullers anymore.

[BruinGuy]

3-400! That's far more than I would want to deal with. Look at it as a workout, I guess...

[Madmox]

I started having more success with the kinetic puller once I took the instructions advice and started using a hardwood round to beat against. Though it blows me away that it would be any different than my work bench top. Anyway. Since it's working i will run with it. It's just going to be a lot of work. Haha. And they were stored in a garage. So not ideal but I'll give a few a try and see how they go.

[EL_NinO619]

When with a kenetic pulled it doesn't work man those must be crimped. If your not saving the brass get a dremal and cut the cases and split them open, save the powder and bullets

This is a really bad idea....

[wild_weasel]

If your in Orange County I'll make a deal with you to take them off your hands.

[Epaphroditus]

I started having more success with the kinetic puller once I took the instructions advice and started using a hardwood round to beat against. Though it blows me away that it would be any different than my work bench top. Anyway. Since it's working i will run with it. It's just going to be a lot of work. Haha. And they were stored in a garage. So not ideal but I'll give a few a try and see how they go.

After one or two whacks on my workbench I really did not like the dents left in my bench ... I switched to a hunk of 6"x6"x1" wood I happened to have laying about - that thing is beat to hell. Finally I stuck a piece of 1/4" aluminum over it and banged on it for years with no ill effects. After I mounted a sizable vise on my bench I just whack on the vise.

Concrete floor works great but I'm too lazy/creaky to constantly bend over or squat. That floor is a long ways down. If a couple whacks on the vise don't work then to the floor it is for success.

A nice whippy wrist action helps, too. Head speed is your friend with a kinetic puller.

[mr.]

Cut them with a small tubing cutter and push them out the back

-joe