Collet Bullet Pullers and Flattened Bullets

[TenDriver]

For Hanukkah / Christmas and birthday I ordered 1000 M2 pulls for cheap, and a Forster collet puller with the collets I need to disassemble some ammo my guns don't like.

The bullets arrived yesterday and nearly all of them are out of round. As a result I ordered a Lee sizing die to hopefully make them round enough to load.

My question.... Is this collet bullet puller going to flatten out the bullets I intend to pull and reload?

Also, any thoughts on the resizing the out of round bullets? I've read a few things that lead me to believe the bullets will be fine for plinking after I run then through. Most are between .302-.318. I think the worst I saw was .323 at the widest part.

 

[rg1]

I recently bought a RCBS collet puller and it will pull bullets without doing any damage. Just don't overtighten the collet. If you were going to pull old loaded bullets or military ammo which may have sealer then it will help to barely push them a little deeper with your seater die before pulling to break the sealant and bond between bullet and brass. The Lee bullet sizing die will make your out of round bullets and marred bullets safe to reload. It won't make them perfect but will iron down burrs and pull marks and make out of round bullets close to on size. There is always some spring back. Badly out of round bullets, size them, rotate the bullet and resize for a better result. Any really tight bullets that you size resize them again also. Safe to load and good enough for plinking. If you have problems pushing them through the sizing die, apply a little brass sizing lube to the bullets.

 

[gamestalker]

I've been working with a kinetic puller for a very long time, but a year or so ago I bought the collet set up, RCBS as it were. Any way I discovered the collet puller does a really nice job on most long profiled bullets, bottle neck cartridges. It doesn't hardly leave a detectable mark.

I agree with RG1, give them a light seat of just a couple though to break the seal. This is true even if they haven't been sealed, it just helps to reduce the amount of collet pressure needed.

As for pulled roll crimped straight walled cases, the kinetic is still the most effective method thus far. Wanting to try it out on some .357's, I ended up ruining about 10 XTP's. It no worky, worky on roll crimped cartridges.

GS

 

[dickttx]

The collet puller needs a sufficient amount of the full diameter of the bullet outside the case for the collet to grab, otherwise, as you tighten the die it will just push the bullet further into the case. They hardly work at all on lead bullets. They are best on jacketed rifle bullets.

 

[TenDriver]

Do they work on plated pistol bullets?

 

[medalguy]

Not really well. Tighten too much and the thin plating breaks. Use pressure judiciously.