posted 25 April 2005 04:15
I have a few 416 Rigby and 404 Jeffrey rounds that fail for whatever reason to chamber. I need to disassemble them and try again. Brass and bullets for this range of cartridges is not cheap so I don't want to just pitch them. They will not fit in my "hammer" style bullet remover. What is the best way to get these bullets pulled. Needless to say I put a good stiff crimp on them as well. Thanks

Make yourself an inertia puller utilizing a shell holder maybe.

My hammer-style inertial puller will work with the .404 Jeffery.

I have collet pullers to use in the press for the bigger stuff. RCBS makes a pretty good range of collet calibers to go with their:

"Bullet Puller W/O Collet P/N 9440."

The .416 collet you need is:

"Bullet Puller Collet .416 P/N 9434."

D HUNTER, go to page six of this forum and read "pulling bullets in big bores" There is a very simple way to do this using p.v.c. pipe. Hope this helps you out. Charlie

I recently loaded 50 416 Rigby rounds and they all failed to chamber. Thorough inspection uncovered the fact that my sizing die had a fatigue crack straight up. I used a Hornady cam-loc puller with great success pulling them fairly quickly.