I modified one of my Kinetic to take big rounds of any kind with a drill press and it works..I use the bullet seater to hold the bullet in all of the Kinetic pullers...

I also have a couple of sets of RCBS collet type bullet pullers and I like them much better for volume work...I have found that I can pull .470s and 500s with them by using the 458 collet in my big RCBS A-2 single stage press as its got a lot of room laterally than any other press I tried and it works for the big Nitro Express cases especially well....

Rusty, thanks for the tip. I had some 7x57's loaded too hot with barnes xxx bullets. They didn't budge with the kinetic puller. Last nite. I eased a pair of wire cutters in the top groove and eased out the bullet using the press, with nary a scratch on them. I figurerd the hard Barnes would stand for this in a way that a conventional wouldn't. I tried your method first and found I couldn't get a grip with a leather cushion so I went metal to metal, with success. Bob

The Kenetic Pullers are not very good at all. If you have a Bullet that is Crimped, you can hang it up, the Kenetic Puller will most likely break before the Bullet comes out.

Now, The Kenetic Puller comes in handy when you make a slight mistake in seating a bullet too deep. That has been known to happen when first setting the seater die for a particular bullet style. The Kenetics work ok if you don't crimp as well.

Good Luck!

Reloader

I went to the Tandy leather center and bought a thick strip of tack leather. From that I cut two pads. I use a small pair of vice grips and the leather to to grip the bullets in the press (without dies).

The bullet came out very nicely no damage, no fuss.

Mind you these were .488 bullets that were seated in 475#2 Jeffery cases that had been sized for .483 bullets.

I did this because I couldn't find a collet puller for .488 bullets. I think this would work for smaller bullets also.
Just my experience.

rough top rubber belting and good pair of pliers ........like others have mentioned use your press........its fast and doesn't jack up the bullet.

I must be missin' somethin'. I have two kinetic pullers and have used them for years. Neither has ever given me any trouble. I've pulled hundreds of rounds of old military ammo, including AP, that was heavily crimped and the collets are only slightly scratched. I've salvaged hundreds of rds. of PSP bullets by using a foam ear plug in the bottom of the puller and you'd never know they were pulled except for scratches on the bearing surface of the bullet. From what I've been reading, the only thing I'm doing different is using a mallet to drive the puller against instead of an immobile object.

I have beat the heck out of some rounds trying to pull them. Just the other day I tried to pull a Crimped 7mm RM and it took about 40 licks. It usually takes quite a few licks w/ any Crimped rounds.

The only luck I've had w/ the Kinetic pullers has been on un-crimped bullets, it works great for that.

Fjold, You are right about those WSM cases, they are just too darn fat. They should have made these pullers a tad bit bigger.

Reloader

It's rather difficult to read your post with those boobs bouncing over there!

Yep Puncher, I'm baffled too. I bought a RCBS kinetic puller back in 1981 and I lost count of the bullet that I've pulled with it years ago. I whack it against a scrap of plywood and it works every time. The only thing it doesn't work on is my 300WSM because the cases are to fat to fit in it.



BTW, I bought the puller in the gunshop on Dorchester near Ladson, SC when I lived in Goose Creek.