I've just managed to get a bullet stuck in a kinetic bullet puller.

It's sort of jammed at an angle in the plastic body.

Who makes a tool to get a bullet out of a bullet removing tool?

This was supposed to be a relaxing Friday night reloading session...

If you can find a crutch tip or something similar to protect the open end, I would simply cover the open end with it and give it a couple of whacks in the same manner that you pulled the bullet originally, except you'll be hitting with the opposite end.

Put the cap back on it and go hit your tire with the open end.

Seriously ironic!

The lead minors turned 21 in 1984?

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Originally posted by Sam:
Put the cap back on it and go hit your tire with the open end.

So today, in daylight, I have finally managed to find the bullet after scarring around on my hands and knees for ten minutes.


I should have followed Xusa's advice in conjunction with yours...

Managed to break mine -- 15 years of use against 20 bucks is good economy. [whak! and powder, bullet, everything all over the garage floor.]
Keep a piece of foam in the recess and you might avoid a repeat. Funny what we'll do to retrieve a fifty cent piece of metal.

Cheers!

It was a pain in the posterior because I couldn't fit any more rounds into the puller but leaving a bullet lying around next to my car in London would have been a seriously bad move!

I'd just never conceived such a thing to be possible; like the poster above says, the irony was palpable.

I'm thinking of getting one of those camlock pullers as the kinetic hammer design seems a little wacky, if you'll pardon the pun, to me.

I'm just worried they'll mark up the bullets more than the hammer.

You might consider the Forster-Bonanza bullet puller http://www.southernhuntingsupp...t_bullet_puller.html

The catch is, you need a separate one for every caliber, but they do a good job and are the fastest thing around. They do mark the outside of the bullet, but tests have shown that damage to the sides of a bullet is not detrimental to accuracy the way that damage to the base or tip is.

Back in the "old days" when state rifle teams were issued National Match ammunition, we used to make "Mexican Match" ammunition by pulling the 173 grain M118 FMJ Match bullets and substituting 168 grain Sierra Match Kings. We modified the bullet puller by attaching a long thin spring, like a screen door spring, to the top of it and directing the open end of the spring into a recepticle to catch the pulled bullets, which we then used for short range practice.

M118 bullets were once the standard against which other match bullets were compared, but the dies that made them gradually wore out and were not replaced and the quality deteriorated accordingly, hence the substitution. The government later began loading Sierra bullets in boxes marked "Not For Combat Use", since they were hollow pointed.

The answer is yes. Simple fix get the collet out of the die body. Set the collet base down over hole or space big enough for your bullet.
Take a 1/4 inch or 5/16 inch rod or bolt, and use it as a punch to tap the bullet out.

Now that it's out wrap a bullet or dummy round holding a bullet in som 400 or so grit paper, polish the collet lightly. It should remove the burrs that probably are hanging onto your bullet.

Make sure you have the right size collet too. Done that and stuck very bullet until I figured it out.

Good luck.

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Originally posted by Ghubert:
It was a pain in the posterior because I couldn't fit any more rounds into the puller but leaving a bullet lying around next to my car in London would have been a seriously bad move!

I'd just never conceived such a thing to be possible; like the poster above says, the irony was palpable.

I'm thinking of getting one of those camlock pullers as the kinetic hammer design seems a little wacky, if you'll pardon the pun, to me.

I'm just worried they'll mark up the bullets more than the hammer.

The real irony will be if they got your crawling around on all fours on one of the various cop snooper cams.
Busted for having loose components on the street. I am sure they can make something up.

Oops, should have read the post closer! Never mind.

Amir,

Ugh, No .... but since you've mentioned it there ought to be a really interesting, if not downright hilareous story to relate.

As usual you're fixated on the wrong issue ..... go back to Loading 101 and figure out intially what you did incorrectly to incur the use of said Bullet Puller in the first place.

Note this mishap and avoid it's reoccurrance.

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..... sort of jammed at an angle .....

No! Not sideways ..... and, Yeah, I know this'll come as a huge revelation; but you actually don't have to go outside in downtown London traffic to bang a kinetic Bullet Puller on your car tire; instead remove one of the four tires and take uptairs in your apartment OR if you don't feel like jacking the car up and all ..... just carry the spare up several flights of stairs and put it on your Coffee Table - just in case; Cynthia won't mind.



Besides; I've seen what you drive and personally, I wouldn't be putting too much pressure on any part of it; especially the tires tyres.

WTF-O? If you've really got to use the Bullet Puller thusly - use someone else's car and do it on the hood, Ugh, er, bonnet.