~ Chris
Casting, reloading, shooting, collecting, restoring, smithing, etc, I love it all but most importantly, God, Family, The United States Constitution and Freedom...
God Bless our Troops, Veterans and First Responders!
Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas
Accuracy, Power & Speed
I like mine. Wear a glove for cushion.
I have a rcbs collet puller with a bunch of collets but don't use it. I prefer the inertia puller and rap it on the concrete floor. Wore out a couple of the stock aluminum collets but never broke the puller. Never found a bullet it won't pull. Sometimes have to seat the bullet deeper to break the seal.
I use a plastic hammer type puller with shellholders for some things but also have an RCBS collet puller.
But when it gets down to the serious stuff a 14 inch set of horseshoe nippers and my RCBS Rockchucker make short work of any rifle rounds with cannelured boolits. Works on pistol bullets with extended shell holders.
I have had a RCBS inertia puller for 40 years and it works just fine. I like the shell holder mod and if I have more than a few to do I use a shell holder instead of fiddling with the little collet.
Somebody just gave me a brand new RCBS puller the other day so I'm good to go forever. The hot tip on these pullers is to hit something hard that does move so you can get a sharp "Rap" on the tool. This increases the actual inertia because the tool comes to an immediate stop as opposed to hitting some softer material which provides a slower stop to the tool. I usually hit the cement floor or sometimes I use a big piece of steel plate on the bench so I don't have to bend over repeatedly. (Economy of motion?) (possibly avoidance of gut?)
I have about 150 rounds of .30-06 that were given to me, but the guy neglected to write down which powder he used in them. I pulled one but couldn't ID the powder so I have to open all of them up. Lots of nice bullets and cases to reuse so it is just pull the bullet, dump powder, recharge and reseat the bullet. This will be a fairly big job and I like MDI above will do it in small bites,,, as that's the way I work on everything now.
Randy
"It's not how well you do what you know how to do,,,It's how well you do what you DON'T know how to do!"
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Fact: Some people are alive simply because it's illegal to kill them.
I use both inertia and RCBS collet style pullers but have one other that I've never seen anywhere else. It's a hollow cylinder, threaded like a die (7/8x14) and has what looks like a sharp edge coil spring inside. You push the loaded round up and the spring grips the bullet, then lower the ram and the bullet is pulled neat as can be...........except.........it leave marks on the bullet like nobody's business. Horribly disfigured and useless, but I suppose if you didn't want to save the projectiles it would be dandy. It mostly sits on the bench as a curiosity these days.....
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |