Bulk 9mm coated bullet pulling.

[bozo699]

May I suggest a Grip-N-Pull. They are the fastest, and leaves you with a case full of powder, which you can use, I put a set of plastic pliers handles on mine to ease the sharp corners for my hands.
Amazon pliers handles

Grip-N-Pull

Wayyyyyyyyyyy faster!…..
Wayne

 

[markm87]

Caveat: Have not watched the video on the PileDriver. But I don't recall any setup other than mounting the thing. It needs to be mounted (preferably) to a wall, but I found that mounting to a piece of lumber and clamping that in a workshop clamping table (like a Workmate) works adequately. Replacing the little cup thing that catches the powder and bullet with a vinyl tube and receptacle speeds things up quite a bit.

I'm banking on the vinyl tube option.

 

[markm87]

May I suggest a Grip-N-Pull. They are the fastest, and leaves you with a case full of powder, which you can use, I put a set of plastic pliers handles on mine to ease the sharp corners for my hands.
Amazon pliers handles

Grip-N-Pull

How do you think it would work with coated bullets? I've been loading coated for 6 months now. They're great bullets for bulk pistol, but the coating isn't strong enough for too much metal contact.

 

[powderbrake]

I think it would work OK. I have pulled rifle bullets, and reloaded them with essentially no change in accuracy. Are you salvaging bullets, or obtaining cases?
I strongly recommend the Pliers Handles, or at least, a glove on the squeezing hand.
I recently broke down 250 rounds of 6BR and it was easy, and I salvaged the cases and the bullets.

 

[divingin]

How do you think it would work with coated bullets? I've been loading coated for 6 months now. They're great bullets for bulk pistol, but the coating isn't strong enough for too much metal contact.

Works fine. Essentially it's a self-contained inertial puller (operates like the hammer type.) The only thing that contacts the bullet is whatever stops it after it is freed from the cartridge case - a piece of foam in the bottom of the cup, or the vinyl tube or receptacle if you go that route. I've got the tube on mine dumping into a paint mixing cup lined with wetsuit foam, with the lid held to the tube with a couple of zip ties. Not very solid, but it's good enough for now.

 

[markm87]

I got the Pile Driver mounted to a heavy stand temporarily. But the thing is SO LOUD that I can't sit in the house and scare the pets senseless. My neighbors would probably think I was shooting in the house if I ran it very much.

It's too hot here in AZ to drag it outside, so I'm going to wait til it's cooler outside and run it then. I've only attempted 1 rounds and the whole cartridge slipped through the collet and ended up in the cup.

I've pulled a 100 or so with the hammer, and only about 1 out of 10 has powder. About 30-40 had no primers. Two had upside down primers. I'd love to know the story on how you make so much bad ammo without catching the problems.

 

[markm87]

Here's the motherload.

 

[Old Navy]

My buddy got a 50 cal can that's nearly full of sketchy 147 gr blue bullets reloads. I'm talking rounds with no primers mixed in the batch.

Can you use a collet die that won't mangle the coated bullets? There's so much ammo there I'll have to chip away at it no matter what, but bullet pulling hammer would make this a 10 year project.

What is sketchy about them besides some unprimed?

 

[Hoser]

I got the Pile Driver mounted to a heavy stand temporarily. But the thing is SO LOUD that I can't sit in the house and scare the pets senseless. My neighbors would probably think I was shooting in the house if I ran it very much.

It's too hot here in AZ to drag it outside, so I'm going to wait til it's cooler outside and run it then. I've only attempted 1 rounds and the whole cartridge slipped through the collet and ended up in the cup.

I've pulled a 100 or so with the hammer, and only about 1 out of 10 has powder. About 30-40 had no primers. Two had upside down primers. I'd love to know the story on how you make so much bad ammo without catching the problems.

Just do 10-15 minutes worth each day and you will chew through those ammo cans in short order.

 

[markm87]

What is sketchy about them besides some unprimed?

80% approximately, SO FAR, have no output charge. I was at 1 out of 10 with powder, but I hit a streak of rounds yesterday that all had powder.

 

[markm87]

Just do 10-15 minutes worth each day and you will chew through those ammo cans in short order.

Yep. Small bites. I already have remade almost 200 rounds for this weekends shoot.