The impact surface you use when using a kinetic bullet puller makes a BIG difference.
The best thing I've found to use is a dead soft lead block. It will greatly increase the power of the kinetic puller.
The impact surface you use when using a kinetic bullet puller makes a BIG difference.
The best thing I've found to use is a dead soft lead block. It will greatly increase the power of the kinetic puller.
NRA Benefactor.
You’ve gotten all sorts of good advice, and since 30-40 Krag brass and the LR primer in each case have some value, they, along with the powder and lead are worthy of salvage. I would probably set up a single stage press with the proper shell holder and no die. Then put one of the cases in place, raise the ram all the way and grab the lead bullet securely with a pair of diagonal cutters laid flat across the upper flat surface of the press. While holding the bullet securely, lower the ram. Throw bullet in pot to remelt later, dump powder into a marked container to reuse (or use for fertilizer), put primed case aside for later sale, repeat.
If you definitely don’t care about losing most of the powder, the “whack-a-mole” method works fine if you use a hard wood, hard nylon, or steel surface, but it’s noisy and cumbersome and takes longer. Bullets are usually unharmed though, but since you’re going to remelt them anyway…
Froggie
"It aint easy being green!"
Big difference between "some" and "most".
Don
NRA Certified Metallic Cartridge Reloading Instructor
NRA Life Member
With the impact puller, I like to tap it fairly soft but rapidly against concrete. That seems to get even really crimped boolits to fall.
WWG1WGA
Same problem...looks like I'm buying a new gun
I have used my impact puller hundreds of times too. As for the wood block, I have gradually torn up a couple blocks of wood. I went to a local sporting goods store and bought a hockey puck for about 3 bucks and that's what I use now. It's hard rubber but it does no damage to the puller.
Thanks all.
I replied awhile back but my reply isn't showing.
Once I moved my kinetic operation to the carpet covered concrete garage floor, all went well and now I have almost 200 pieces of brass, powder and boolits, not to mention primers.
Just throw them in the "junk" pile. I have a pretty good one building. I'll likely just list it here for one money. Half boxes of odd calibers, single dies, random grips, recoil springs, and magazines for guns I don't own.
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 |