Newbie asks for advice

[Jerome Cooper]

Excellent and thorough advice has been given to you so far. Normally hammer type bullet pullers will work but the "seal" makes it quite difficult. An old trick I learned a long time ago might prove interesting. Take two flat bars of steel, an inch wide, 1/2 inch thick and 6-7 inches long......a couple of wood chisels would also work fine. Put the neck of the cartridge on one of them and the other one ---place it on top and roll the neck back and forth several times under firm downward pressure between the two.....the neck will loosen around the bullet and you can even pull the bullet out by hand. You can use one bar or chisel if you have a bench vise with an anvil or flat portion which would take the place of the second or "underneath" bar. It works and amazes people the first time they do it, but the process is slow if you have a lot of bullets to pull. It does not hurt the bullets or the case necks. All you need is patience and you may not have to buy a bullet puller. Jerome Cooper

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[marlin]

Thanks, I'll try that just to see how it works, but it sounds too labor intensive for a large batch. Midway will be getting an order from me soon.

[TDH]

Another thing you can try to loosen the bullet is to just seat it a bit deeper (a couple thousants should work) and they willbe easier to pull because it will break the seal