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Post by kings6 on Apr 19, 2019 16:18:45 GMT -5
Glad you still have your “whacker” too!😳
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Post by zeus on May 3, 2019 7:53:26 GMT -5
Inertia is fine for heavy bullets. But if you ever need to pull a light bullet as in 100 grains etc, I’d do collet or something like it. Have used inertia pullers for year and they work great on heavy pistol stuff or heavy rifle I guess if it fits but I had a 270 WSM primer pop one afternoon while trying to get a bullet out. Just didn’t have much weight and the primer went off on the second pop on the carpeted wood piece I use. Spooked me. Luckily, no powder kit off with it. I’ve heard of that happening to others but I had never witnessed it first hand until that day. So heavy bullets only for me and I truly am not worried about a few deformed bullets to toss away. They make more but if that thing blows up, your fingers will not grow back
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Post by 45MAN on May 4, 2019 7:21:13 GMT -5
MY HANDGUN GRIP-N-TRY-2-PULLER NOW RESIDES IN CALIFORNIA, IN THE HOME OF A FELLOW BOARD MEMBER, I LOST $14 ON THE DEAL, AND HAVE MOVED ON.
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Post by bradshaw on May 4, 2019 7:48:39 GMT -5
“I had a 270 WSM primer pop one afternoon while trying to get a bullet out. Just didn’t have much weight and the primer went off on the second pop on the carpeted wood piece.... Luckily, no powder....” ----zeus
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Good cautionary tale. Reckon a primer expelled the bullet! Powder, of course, kicked by a primer is more excitable than powder lighted with a match.
A couple of notes * Tension on a lacquer-sealed rifle bullet may be broken by seating the bullet a hair deeper, then pulling----preferably with a COLLET PULLER. * A handgun (or rife) bullet may be pulled by running the cartridge up in a press.... clamp ogive close to case mouth with a small VISE-GRIP. The Vise-Grip wedges in the die hole, holding bullet as the ram is lowered. David Bradshaw
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Post by kaytod on May 4, 2019 8:34:18 GMT -5
I've got a set of the grip and pull "pliers"
They work well in some applications, and not so well in others.
Generally they work well when pulling rifle bullets in bottleneck cases. The smaller the bullet the harder it is to pull as the opening is closer to your hand. Yes it's a smaller bullet, so people think it would be easier. However that is not the case, some of the hardest things to pull were military 5.56 due to the neck tension, crimp and at times lacquer. The 204 Ruger was somewhat problematic as the little bullets offer very little parallel area for the pliers to get ahold of. Therefore you crush the bullet to get it out. 17's were the same way. I found a good sharp set of small wire side cutters worked best with minimal bullet damage on the small calibers. The sharp jaws would bite slightly into the bullet jacket and extracted the bullet much easier than the G-N-P pliers. The only problems I ever had using the wire cutters was on the H&K 4.6x30 as the bullets were so crimped that the jacket would separate/break at the case mouth leaving the rear half of the jacket in the case, but the front have and core would come out with the wire cutter jaws.
The G-N-P pistol version worked well for me on pistol cases for automatics. They don't work well with revolver cartridges. Perhaps it's because we do everything possible to eliminate any bullet pull when we fire the revolver. Revolver (striaght wall) cartridges generally have very high case tension combined with heavy crimps and long bearing surfaces that are in full contact with the case. Cast bullets can even worse as they are generally a bit oversize compared to the jacketed and the end you try to get ahold of is softer than the jacketed variations.
I pulled some Nitro Express rifle cartridges with minimal fuss, but they have long bullet nose to get a grip on, 45-70's were a bit harder, depending on the bullet profile, as the hole in the G-N-P is at the point with the most mechanical advantage. They would be better if offered with about half as many holes ( nearest the hinge ) and the same length or longer handles.
I would love to see something like the G-N-P but in a genuine hinged plier style or compound leverage plier, to minimize hand fatigue, as the plier type is pretty fast, but it does have it's limitations.
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