Frankford Arsenal Pile Driver Bullet Puller on pistol rounds?

No it will not go high enough, you will need a collet puller.

Never used it, but they sell a model specifically for pulling pistol bullets...

https://grip-n-pull.com/products/pistol-grip-n-pull-bullet-puller

Do yourself a favor and look at the Hornady collet bullet puller. The RCBS is good but the Hornady is easier to work with. I have the RCBS.

I had the grip and pull and they were miserable.. IMO. Switched to both the hornady collet style and the impact. Both work way way way better than that G&P

I had to take apart 400 rnds of .9mm and .40 recently and i had kinetic hammer (which worked best for me), i bought grip n pull but for handgun bullets its a bad design...you have to center a metal cylinder over the ram everything moves around and i got the rcbs bullet puller w/appropriate collet... this was easiest method but it only worked on a handful i could never get collet tight enough and it made a ring around all bullets i tried it on... someone mentioned hornady bullet puller and that might be way to go...but after all that kinetic puller worked the best for me.

On a lot of bullet designs you cant get a good grip on the bullet and the hammer is the only option. Rifle is a lot easier. The hammer will make you make smaller batches for testing and pay attention because it sucks...

I do what Juiceking above did. I used a short piece of PVC pipe to fit over the ram. Raise the ram, insert round, grab bullet, lower ram. The tool rests on the PVC pipe and pulls the bullet out while lowering the ram.

Use a collet style if you don't want to leave a mark.

Cast lead bullets, I just use a big pair of wire cutters and toss the bullet into the re-melt can.

Interesting, it has the versatility of a hammer but no impact on the user. If you have the space and the cash I think it could be just the ticket. The collet puller is best suited to fmj where a thick jacket is available and accuracy is not paramount. I'm not sure that serious competition shooter would reuse a bullet for something other than a Fowler or just trigger practice.

I can't give an opinion on the Pile Driver, but I've had an RCBS collet type puller for decades.

A friend got one of the Hornady Cam Lock pullers a couple of years ago, it is definitely faster and easier to use than the RCBS.