Ok guys, I recently swapped the barrel in my ruger precision 308. I changed the factory barrel to a LRI stainless steel match barrel. Before I had been turning the necks of my brass, and only neck sizing with a redding bushing die. Now with the new barrel, the neck sized, and turned brass will not fit in the chamber. So can I pull all the rounds I have made,and full length resize the brass and start over? Or do I need to start over with new brass? Also if I am still able to use the brass, is it ok to refuse the pulled bullets? Thanks

you can pull the bullets and fl resize or try setting the shoulder back a few thousands. if that don't work start over

And yes, you can re-use the pulled bullets.

Ok, I figured it would be ok to reuse the bullets. But I wasn't sure if they would be worth a damn, if they're all scratched up from being pulled?

A scratch on the body or nose causes no problems what so ever. A deep scratch or ding on the base of the bullet is bad news.

Yes, the base is 1000 times more important than the nose; but if you use an inertia puller, they won't be affected at all.

Turner421--If you have a very few bullets to pull, a kinetic puller is ok. If you have several, in my books get an RCBS collet puller. On cast bullets I remove the dies from my press and run the bullet through the hole and if there is enough nose, latch onto it with a pair of vice grips and when you lower the ram you pull the bullet. Ruins the cast bullet, just remelt it.

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Originally posted by Turner421:
the neck sized, and turned brass will not fit in the chamber

Hopefully, you didn't thin the necks too much when turning them. This would be the only reason (other than the brass nearing the end of its useful life due to multiple firings) that your old brass can't be used in your new chamber. Simply size it in a FL sizing die, but don't turn the die down all the way. Back it off of the shellholder at first, then turn it down a bit at a time until your brass chambers. It is possible that you may have to go hard against the shellholder, but if you'll stop just when it chambers without significant bolt resistance your headspace will be minimal and your brass can be neck sized-only on subsequent firings.

I have an enertia puller, one of those hammer looming thing's. But it always looks like there are scratches around thug bottom outside portion of the bullets? But I'm not to worried about calling it a loss on the bullets. They're typed match kings, and I haven't been very impressed with them at all.

Sorry fellas, spell check is killing me!

Just use the pulled bullets to fireform your brass after fl sizing the first time.

If your bullets have scratched jackets when pulled with an inertia puller then that means they were scratched in seating and are scratched inside the necks of the cartridges as they sit. You need to be sure to chamfer the mouths of your cases to assure they are smooth so that bullets aren't scratched as they enter the mouth in seating. Also, it is possible that your die may be reducing the diameter of the case necks too much, but a rough or sharp-edged mouth is usually the cause of bullet scratching.

A body die can be used to bump back the shoulder without pulling the bullets. Ask me how I know.

As far as using pulled "scratched" bullets; do you think bullets get scratched when they are sent down the bore?

Do not worry about the scratched bullets; it gets worse when when they hit the rifling.
If your brass headspace is too long after Fl resizing, maybe your brass needs annealing, or tossing.

Yes you can do all that..One thing you need to do is once the bullets are pulled, take the primer punch pin out of the die then resize the necks to get the same even tension on the reloads you are making, other wise the bullets are usually loosely held..

pulling does not hurt bullet in any way other than they ain't purty anymore sometimes..depands on your bullet puller and how you use as to how much the bullet is scratched up..It does require a technique, just ease the bullets out slowly as opposed to slamming them out.

The initeria bullet pullers are the worst, and some experts tell me they are dangerous..The puller that works in your loading press is the best at any rate and they are not expensive, they even make one that use one head for all calibers, haven't use it however as I have a full set of bullet pullers for all calibers..