pulling bullets ?

[Dusty Stevens]

No. That was from a test on HBN. It made the bullets stick in the necks and hard to remove and these only had .002" interference fit. These were seated and pulled right back out. I have experienced bullet weld which also made them hard to remove. There absolutely would be an increase in pressure and with a hot load, and could be dangerous. I'm not sure the exact cause of bullet weld. It could be moisture or perspiration from touching the bullets, or cases too clean? I now coat the necks and bullets with Imperial dry lube and I'm going to spot check some that have been loaded for over 2 years to see it it eliminates the problem.

Most of the time what seems to be a good idea on lubing necks turns out to make it even worse.

 

[msinc]

Resize. And unless you remove the de-capping pin you will have to re-prime too.

 

[fyrewall]

I avoid pulling bullets. The bullet makers take care in producing exact dimension bullets and squashing the bullets with some collet would not make them happy. If extracting some bullet makes the bullet resemble a coke bottle this has happened. The inertia hammer approach might destroy the hammer should an attempt to pull a light, crimped in bullet be made. Bullet pulling experience has shown my RCBS bullet puller to be better than my Hornady. I think upon getting some neck tension of .005 - .003 pulling a bullet might give some of this up resulting in some neck tension of .001 less so I would neck size again then reseat. I have some Lee Collet Dies that have the decap pin busted off for this purpose.

 

[Rsadams]

I pulled some when testing HBN. These were stuck so bad that I put 50+ lbs force on the press lever without budging some of them and was lifting the bench off the floor. Even at that no marks from the RCBS puller. You can see how hard these stuck in the cases.
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I saved a few that looked like that myself , they were welded nice over 30 years.... What was crazy was the powder was still in great shape.... Never found any clumping etc , if I would have known what it was I might have saved it for a rainy day....

 

[Rsadams]

No. That was from a test on HBN. It made the bullets stick in the necks and hard to remove and these only had .002" interference fit. These were seated and pulled right back out. I have experienced bullet weld which also made them hard to remove. There absolutely would be an increase in pressure and with a hot load, and could be dangerous. I'm not sure the exact cause of bullet weld. It could be moisture or perspiration from touching the bullets, or cases too clean? I now coat the necks and bullets with Imperial dry lube and I'm going to spot check some that have been loaded for over 2 years to see it it eliminates the problem.

Let me know what you find , those bullets I pulled had carbon in the necks from previous firings , reloads from someone 30 years ago... BUT some were still stuck very very good and a few fell out...
I use the imperial dry lube myself on new brass....

 

[searcher]

REBS - I didn't see whether you were loading these for a bolt gun or a semi-auto. If a semi-auto, I absolutely would resize the necks to avoid possibility of bullet movement when loading.

 

[rebs]

REBS - I didn't see whether you were loading these for a bolt gun or a semi-auto. If a semi-auto, I absolutely would resize the necks to avoid possibility of bullet movement when loading.

reloading for a bolt gun

 

[antelopedundee]

If it's specialized ammo maybe resize; if it's ROTM stuff, don't bother for 30 rounds. Better to keep all of your cases the same instead of having some "worked" more than the others.

 

[Barlow]

I pulled 9, 117gr, rn 257 Roberts RP factory bullets yesterday with my RCBS collet puller. They were crimped and measured at .2565-.257 ID. Had to debur and resize to get good tension. Barlow

 

[Intheshop]

I pulled a 20 box of factory 140g corelok 7-08's a few days ago. To be loaded with cast RCBS 145SIL. This particular lot is a touch soft in the neck because not only how controllable the extraction was with impact hammer(this is a reoccurring method of getting cases) but,could tell on seating the +.0025" CB's.....amongst a cpl other tangible effects.

So,would I resize for jacketed? Probably,unless it was just plinking....don't give a rip blasting stuff.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

30 of em id be using an inertia hammer

I have broken 3 of those contraptions. I use a press mounted puller now. The one I have leaves no marks..

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I have broken 3 of those contraptions. I use a press mounted puller now. The one I have leaves no marks..

Id rather it leave marks so ill know not to use them

 

[Capt45]

The FCD ???

Factory Crimp Die.

 

[antelopedundee]

Id rather it leave marks so ill know not to use them

If it had a cannelure I used to put it in the press with nothing in the die hole and run it up until I could use a pair of the roundish nose side cutter pliers and grip it and pull the ram back down until the bullet got pulled. Used the bullets for foulers or plinkers.