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Posted: 9/21/2008 6:17:05 AM EDT
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hey guys, i bought one of those RCBS bullet hammers and i cannot get it to work. i put the bullet in the holder, insert it into the end and twist it till its tight. ill hit the hammer on a hard surface many times and the bullet does not budge. what am i doing wrong? seems to be a pretty simple concept. |
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Bullet puller must strike a hard dense surface. For me that is the concrete floor of my shop. Some will say that banging on concrete will break the puller. That has never happened to me in 30+ years. There is a fine line between a normal hit, and a superman break the puller hit. Depending on the amount of crimp on the bullet, 2 or 3 hits are normally enough. Good luck. |
No. Hit the hammer on the end grain of a piece of hard wood. Usually 3 to 4 whacks are the most required. If the bullets are crimped, try seating them deeper, then pulling. The idea is to snap the hammer; get the head moving fast. dryflash3's hammer must be one of a kind, I've never seen one that I would whack on concrete. But who knows, stranger things happen every day. |
Sure it does. The powder has mass and that mass, or some portion of it anyway, will bear against the bullet base when the puller head stops. Not having powder won't keep a bullet from pulling, but the powder makes a difference. |
Yep. The bounce makes for as much as TWICE the extractive effort. 230 grain bullets in .45 ACP take one hit. 30 grain bullets in a .223 are next to impossible. |
It's all in the wrist. 
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Not enough to matter. The powder is not transferring its momentum to the bullet efficiently; it's not even against the bullet until the hammer stops. |
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