Hard to pull bullets.

[204shooter]

I am having a little trouble with my 6.5-284.

I am using a standard Redding neck die, but my groups have been a little disappointing.

Decided to pull bullet on about 25 loaded cases, with kinetic style puller, and nearly beat my brains in doing it.

Should I buy a set of bushing dies to reduce tension?

Could this be my problem with sour grouping, everything else to up to snuff,scope, bases tight, technique etc.)

Thank you for your input.

AK

 

[billmo]

Yea man, you can have too much neck tension. I certainly would swap over to bushing dies. I have seen improvements in my loads since I was taught by Catshooter, Gunamonth, and Milanuk, how to back off with larger bushings to improve accuracy. One thought comes to mind when you are pulling bullets with a kinetic puller. If you find a short block of 2 X 4 and hold it with the end,grain turned up towards you) and strike the end grain rather than the flat wood it makes a world of difference. Try that and I believe it will work better for you. I hope this helps
Bill

 

[CatShooter]

I am having a little trouble with my 6.5-284.

I am using a standard Redding neck die, but my groups have been a little disappointing.

Decided to pull bullet on about 25 loaded cases, with kinetic style puller, and nearly beat my brains in doing it.

Should I buy a set of bushing dies to reduce tension?

Could this be my problem with sour grouping, everything else to up to snuff,scope, bases tight, technique etc.)

Thank you for your input.

AK

Decided to pull bullet on about 25 loaded cases, with kinetic style puller, and nearly beat my brains in doing it.

First, you're not supposed to hit them on your head - that's probably why it's not working well.




Kinetic bullets are badd stuff - they are ok for pistol rounds, and in the occasional emergency, but no matter how experienced you are, you will need to pull bullets and a collet puller is the only way to go, and a mandated accessory for ALL reloaders.

While I use bushing dies, a lot of 1,000yd matches have been won over the years with ammo from standard dies.

If your groups are disappointing, you probably have other problems - while bushing dies are nice, they do not make bad groups into winning groups.

Very good shooting riffles are the sum of a lotta details, of which bushing dies are one little piece - there are no magic "one stop" cures.


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[Winchester69]

End cutter pliers will also work. Put the loaded round in the press's shell holder and extend the bullet up through the top of the press frame. The rest is intuitive. Use a piece of leather or something similar to pad the bullet.

 

[CatShooter]

End cutter pliers will also work. Put the loaded round in the press's shell holder and extend the bullet up through the top of the press frame. The rest is intuitive. Use a piece of leather or something similar to pad the bullet.

... but any kind of pliers will wreck the bullets.

Often we load up expensive match bullets and decide to remove them for any number of reasons...

... with a good quality collet puller, the bullets are unharmed and can be loaded again.


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[FroggyOne2]

A collet bullet puller is the only real way to go! It is the best way to insure that there will be no damage to the bullet when removing it from the case mouth.

 

[harvey13118]

Another worthwhile trick is to use your seating die and use just enough to nudge the bullet deeper but breaking the seal.