Water Swatter

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

NY Harvester

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

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

jeepkid

Yep

bigcountry

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

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

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

Water Swatter

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

Pawildman

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

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.