Can you nice folks advise on a bullet puller

I've got a press type puller I haven't used in years. Every time I have used it I have ruined the bullet's. Also a hammer type I like. It'll mess up bullet tips if your not careful. I tried padding the bottom and didn't care for that and still managed to mess up some tips. Now I give a couple good whack's on a concrete step to start the bullet, then softer to get it out. Watch the bullet and you can tell when it's close. I don't enjoy pulling bullet's. Sometime's it's a necessary evil!
 
The other point is you need a hard surface for the hammer to work best. Wood is not hard, and despite how it feels when we fall on it, concrete isn't that hard, either. The hammer doesn't need to be swung hard, it needs to be swung fast, and stop suddenly, for best results. Wood nd concrete slightly cushion, that sudden stop. It will still work, but not as easily.
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Interesting. My experience is more like that of condor bravo:

When using an inertia puller, don't use it like you are hammering nails. Instead, let it rebound freely on its own (of course while still having hold of it) which adds to the inertia effect. A good choice for a pounding object is a short piece of 4x4 standing in the direction of the grain alignment upward (rather than sideways).
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I have a piece of 2x4 that i keep in the drawer next to the kinetic puller for its purpose. As CB said, I hit it end on so it doesn't split. I hold the puller loosely so it can rebound, but strike the wood sharply. One to two whacks almost always does it for me.
 
Kinetics are fine for one or two.

After that, they are big time tedious.

I keep the Kinetic for the one off and use the Hornady collet for batches.
 
I've learned that before using the collet puller to run cartridges through the seater die first.
Just give the bullet a little nudge. Helps loosen em.
Pulls right out with the collet after that.

I don't own one of the Wack-a-mole pullers.
 
There's absolutely no way to blow anybody up with a kinetic puller. Nothing ever comes anywhere near the primers. Best to whack the thing on an igneous rock over anything else, including concrete.
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I do not mind going into 'it'. We had a reloader that decided to pull bullets with a kinetic hammer while he was surrounded by family members. What ever happened rendered his hammer head scrap.

And then there is the nature of the reloader; the reloader has an overwhelming tendency to pile on. In this situation they piled on while blaming the use of the shell holder instead of the 3 pierce/rubber banded collet.

Not me because I had already pushed myself away from the keyboard to determine what all of the reloaders wife's were talking about. Except for the very smallest of cases it was impossible to move the case over (one way or the other) to get the primer under the shell holder and I also found the case could be centered with 'O' rings to prevent the case from moving.

Whole I was not at the key board I did some thinking; he blew his hammer head off of the handle so I wondered: Did he use the kinetic hammer to seat a primer?

He could have had a high primer, there is a chance the powder in the case settled down through the flash hole in and into the primer meaning if the primer seated while hammering on the drive way there was no room for the primer to seat.

Do not pull bullets with a hammer/kinetic puller if you have protruding primers.

F. Guffey
 
I think i am going with the press collet one. After pounding my arm off i finally got it. I am pretty new and make lots of mistakes. One with the press would probably be better for me
 
I have pulled a few thousand bullets with the Hornady collet puller(don't ask why so many :o). The only time I struggled was pulling high tech coated bullets. But once I figured to set up my bullet seating die a little deeper to break them a little loose the collet puller worked great as usual.
 
I wiped out one of my Kinetics when I tried to use a round pipe for extract a bullet (I think I was trying to just move it out a bit)

Yea, you need a solid surface, but curve puts all the stress in one narrow area, ooops (RCBS replaced it for the cost of sending them the Remanent and I did tell them what I had one)
 
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