Best bullet puller for cast bullets ?

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

I'd prefer to remove the bullets for reuse, if possible.

I suspect you don't cast your own yet?

I had similar thoughts about reusing cast bullets before I became a boolit caster. If the bullets you are pulling are commercially cast "Hard cast" bullets, then reusing them may work out for you. But, when I attempted to save/reuse pulled cast bullets, my attempts were futile.

[Rizzo]

The rcbs hammer type puller works fine for cast bullets and if you want to try to reuse them just put a cotton ball down in puller before the round. This acts as padding so the bullet won't get deformed.

Good tip. Thanks.
I just pulled some 30-06 soft point bullets and the tip got smashed and deformed.
I'll melt them down for the lead but the cost adds up when I ruined 5 or 6.

I'm going to try the cotton tip out.
Maybe a piece of styrofoam instead so the powder doesn't get stuck in the cotton.

[DocSavage]

Inertia pull puller and a piece of 4x4 post. For pointed j bullets put a foam earplugs in the puller to cushion the bullet upon release. The jaws I have for the puller is from Quinetics O ring is crimped in place and split on one side jaws segments stay together but the O ring can't split/ fail.

[gwpercle]

When using an inertia puller, with boolits that have been crimped in place, including Military ammo,
seat the bullet just a tad deeper to break the crimp, it will make pulling easier.
Gary

[joebaja]

The Hornady cam-lock works great for 9mm, but took me all of about 10 minutes to bust a collet tooth off in 45. It is just a bunch thinner and very unforgiving if you accidentally grab brass. That horrible crunching sound still haunts me. For 45 I do use the rcbs, and it is fine on most but not all cast shapes. For SWC's in 45, where I have very little full diameter shoulder to work with, I get enough squeeze from the 9mm collet in the Hornady grabbing the "nose" of the bullet for most.

[HangFireW8]

I have the RCBS collet puller, two inertia (Q-netix green and Midway blue), and a pair of vice grips by the press. All of them get used, depending on the circumstances.

I found I can usually reload my inertia pulled cast boolits, with a few caveats. It has to be not crimped, and it has to be loaded without excessive neck tension. Since I usually minimally resize rifle brass with a bushing die, and usually expand to full depth with an NOE in Lee expander die, I usually get an unmolested boolit back. However if I'm using a standard jacketed-oriented FL die and just flaring, it usually does some resizing on the cast boolit- which is why I'm phasing out that equipment for cast loads.