gamestalker
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As some of you may recall, last week I was inquiring about the colet bullet puller. Well I got it in the mail today from Midway, and got it all set up and pulled my first .357 with it. Things didn't go so well on the first 4 or 5 rounds, I ripped two cases in half, and then bulged two or three more bullets before I got a handle on it. And even though I figured it out and all, I think I'll be using my kinetic puller for most jobs. I think I can smooth things out a little bit more if I break the seat a bit. Maybe running them through the seating die first, say .005" - .010" might help them to pull a bit easier.
What really bothered me though, is there is no way to lock an adjustment down to get the same consistency from bullet to bullet. If I use too little tension I damage the bullet some when the colet slips off, too much and I severely deform the bullet. And I don't like the fact that I can't tell if I'm grabbing the bullet, or the case, until it's too late.
I'm definitely not going to use this set up much for crimped bullets, might work better on high power, and pistol cartridges that don't have a roll crimp.
What other type of pullers are there that might not have such a large margin of error? Do any of them offer some type of adjustment that will reduce the risk of deforming bullets?
GS
What really bothered me though, is there is no way to lock an adjustment down to get the same consistency from bullet to bullet. If I use too little tension I damage the bullet some when the colet slips off, too much and I severely deform the bullet. And I don't like the fact that I can't tell if I'm grabbing the bullet, or the case, until it's too late.
I'm definitely not going to use this set up much for crimped bullets, might work better on high power, and pistol cartridges that don't have a roll crimp.
What other type of pullers are there that might not have such a large margin of error? Do any of them offer some type of adjustment that will reduce the risk of deforming bullets?
GS