Forster Bullet Puller Die with 9mm Luger

[mgmorden]

Just curious: has anyone here ever successfully pulled bullets with the Forster press-mounted bullet puller and 9mm Luger shells?

I bought the puller a while back with a .357 collet. With the die bottomed out on the shell holder and the top screwed all the way down it never tightned on the bullet. It's not that it slipped off the bullet - it never even gripped it.

After reading through some literature I noticed that Forster listed the 357 collet as being for "Rifle cartridges" and listed 358 as being used for pistol. I bought that collet and same thing - it won't tighten on the bullet.

The next size down from these is 348 which would seem to small.

Has anyone gotten this to work with 9x19 before? I really wanted to use the press-mounted puller for around ~100 rounds I had goofed up on but I'm getting tempted to just buy one of the kinetic/hammer type pullers.

Thanks.

 

[gamestalker]

I've never used the Forester, (RCBS) but from what it sounds like you might not be using it properly. I'm able to use my .357" collet on .355" bullets no problem. Read the instructions again, or log onto "You Tube" for some step by step instructions. It should slip on and stop against the case mouth, then you tighten down the handle till it feels snug, not over tightened though, or you'll deform the bullet.

Are they jacketed bullets?

GS

 

[sexybeast]

Get the impact for 9mm. You might have better luck with 9 than 40 with a collet puller but just use an impact for a few.
I use an impact. Time consuming yes but you mess up fewer bullets.
I only use a Forester puller for rifle. How do you pull a bullet out of a .40 cartridge?

 

[Otto]

I've found that with pistol rounds there isn't enough bullet shank for the collet to grab on to....your mileage may vary. Collet pullers are primarily for rifle rounds.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

I have the Forstner collet bullet puller in 9mm, It will tighten down on flat point truncated cone bullets but NOT on the round nose.
It works on 357mag also, at least mine does.

There isn't enough straight side wall to the round nose for it to grab.
I have to use the kinetic type (hammer type) to remove those.

I don't know of anything that will grab a round nose 9mm bullet.

 

[gamestalker]

I haven't had any problems pulling 9mm or .40 cal, round nose or JHP's. But on roll crimped wheel gun cartridges, the crimp creates so much tension that the bullets get deformed due to the amount of adjustment needed on the collet to hold on to them, not ideal by any means. So I only use the kinetic puller for roll crimped cartridges, jacketed bullets are just to expensive to go ruining any.

GS