Which bullet puller should I buy?
I shoot cowboy action with 45 colt and my wife shoots 38 spl. I find sometimes a primer will load backwards and I don't want to throw away 45 colt brass. It is too expensive.
Thank you for your input.
Thank you for your input.
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Depends on what kind of reloading press you have. If it's a single station press I would get a Hornady cam lock bullet puller. I have been using one for years and it does a outstanding job. It's kind of tough to use one on a progressive press though, unless you have extra tool heads you can leave it set up on.
The easiest and cheapest set up other then the Hornady would be a inertia bullet puller. A bunch of different manufacturers make them. They are very slow and can be fragile if you have to pull a lot of loaded ammo with tight crimps. I had a RCBS, I gave up it after breaking it twice. Although they will replace it without any charge if you break it.0 -
Inertia puller should work quite well with most pistol calibers. I have never needed a collet puller on a pistol round.
On the other hand I have very little luck with inertia pullers on rifle bullets so use a collet puller.
I have used the RCBS inertia puller for a decade now. I have hit it hard enough many times I was sure I was going to break it. I have yet to break it.0 -
I have had great luck with the Frankford Arsenal bullet puller as well as the RCBS. Both are inertia style pullers. 0 -
If it is just an occasional round or two, go with the inertia puller. They come with different size collets to hold most any size case. 0 -
A+++ also, instea of using the rubber ring collets, i just use the regular shell holder. much faster and a lot better.dquote:Originally posted by drygulchdan
If it is just an occasional round or two, go with the inertia puller. They come with different size collets to hold most any size case.0 -
260 thats a great idea. I use the inertia RCBS and if you use it for hundreds of rounds you will wear it out or break it. RCBS will warrenty though. They are a lot more cost effective and thats important. 0 -
The key is that the inertia puller is not made to pull 100's of rounds.
Most times when you pull a round, it is because you made a mistake - they are not designed to be used - where someone bought some cheap rounds and wanted to remove the primers from 1000 rounds or where they wanted to use a different powder.
The inertia puller is the best bang for the buck in my opinion.
I would be afraid of trying to knock out a primer that was pressed in backwards - because more times then not - it is going to go bang.
I had a friend that died and his house burned to the ground that was a gun collector and reloader who was just drilling a action for scope mounts - in the same room he did his reloading in - and a hot chip fell to the floor and ignited some powder that had migrated down into a crack in the cement floor in his shop.
The whole house went in a matter of minutes.
The only thing left standing was the fireplace.
Blew the house right off the foundation.0 -
I find the collet puller sometimes just slips on lead bullets. So I use an inertia one for those.
The collet puller I use mainly on rifle rounds with jacketed bullets.0 -
I have a Frankford Arsenal inertia puller and works OK but I prefer the RCBS bullet puller with different collets ... protects the bullet tips and no powder mess.
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quote:Originally posted by jonk
I find the collet puller sometimes just slips on lead bullets. So I use an inertia one for those.
The collet puller I use mainly on rifle rounds with jacketed bullets.
Jonk hit it right. The collet type pullers don't woak very well on lead bullets.
As for pushing out a bachwards primer, you just push slowly, not like you are depriming a spent one.0
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