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Water Swatter 09-24-2009 08:04 PM

Adding length to OAL
 
I have reloads that have the bullets seated to deep, how do you guys pull the bullet slightly back out?

NY Harvester 09-25-2009 03:59 AM

I bought one of those hammer type pullers, I havn't used it yet.
I have around a half dozen rounds I seated to deep to pull apart next session.

Pawildman 09-25-2009 11:47 AM

I use a hammer puller. Get the bullet started moving, make sure your seater die is set properly, and have at it.....

jeepkid 09-25-2009 12:59 PM


Originally Posted by Pawildman (Post 3453739)
I use a hammer puller. Get the bullet started moving, make sure your seater die is set properly, and have at it.....

Yep :rock:

bigcountry 09-25-2009 01:01 PM

I use a kinetic hammer too. But I never have good luck doing it. Seems those loads I pull out has less neck tension or something and doesn't shoot the same as if I loaded it that same COL.

TUK101 09-25-2009 01:55 PM


Originally Posted by Ridge Runner (Post 3453842)
Ditto, never had good luck with accuracy just pulling bullets a bit. I'd rather pull them dump the powder, then remove the decapping pin from the sizer die and resize and reload.
RR

That's what I do. It seems that once the bullet starts moving in the puller, the brass loses it's "squeeze" on the bullet and it's just not the same.

Pawildman 09-25-2009 06:26 PM


Originally Posted by Ridge Runner (Post 3453842)
Ditto, never had good luck with accuracy just pulling bullets a bit. I'd rather pull them dump the powder, then remove the decapping pin from the sizer die and resize and reload.
RR

Just wonderin'....Have you ever checked bullet runout after hammering and re-setting without resizing/resetting? Curious...

Water Swatter 09-25-2009 10:50 PM

Thanks, sounds like I need to dump, resize and reload.

Pawildman 09-26-2009 05:51 AM


Originally Posted by Ridge Runner (Post 3454252)
never got that in-depth into it pa, but in my 7mm STW the ES went from single didgets to almost 200 fps. so just assumed it was a neck tension thing.
RR

Yeah....That's interesting. With that kind of spread it's not the runout problem I kinda thought it may be. When you and bc were saying they didn't shoot as well, I wondered if the hammer was causing the bullet to come out at a bit of an arc or angle and creating excessive runout.....Thanks.....

bigcountry 09-27-2009 06:33 AM


Originally Posted by Pawildman (Post 3454316)
Yeah....That's interesting. With that kind of spread it's not the runout problem I kinda thought it may be. When you and bc were saying they didn't shoot as well, I wondered if the hammer was causing the bullet to come out at a bit of an arc or angle and creating excessive runout.....Thanks.....

Honstely, I never check it when I pull one out with a hammer. I usually seat too deep during setup. And only 2 rounds max, so I use those for foulers.


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