Pulled Bullets?

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kyray

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When I pull bullets for whatever reason, I usually get a ring around them about half way down. The jaws of the puller makes a tiny compression ring around the bullet. I'm starting to gather quite a few of these up. My question is, would the compression ring affect the accuracy of the bullet itself? Thanks. kyray
 
I would never use pulled bullets where accuracy is an issue. I have never tested them for accuracy but I can only imagine that it would have some adverse effect.
 
Using a collet bullet puller, you do not have to tighten the collet around the bullet as tight as you may be doing it. As far as the ring affecting the accuracy of the pulled bullet, that would depend on the depth of the ring. usually any type of damage to the bullet would cause it to loose accuracy, but the collet is probably not making much of a dent and I do not believe that you would notice much of a change. One other thing would be to use these for target practice or load developement or just to target shoot/plink, but I think you will find that since the ring is all the way around evenly and should not be more that a couple thousanths deep, I do not think that you will have a problem with them. Try shooting them on paper for accuracy!

Again, try using less pressure on the bullets when pulling them. Mine have never had a ring on them after pulling, and I have even pulled Barnes "coated" bullets....JOHN /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
I actually spoke to a tech from Hornaday about this and he said that the lead under the copper jacket is compressed. No matter how you look at it, that can't be a good thing for accuracy.
 
+ 1. It all goes back to consistency. Who knows "how hard" you grabbed each and every bullet to pull it. If you're going out to a gravel pit, shooting and looking for a "puff" of dust in the general direction that you had the gun pointed, by all means, use the pulled bullets. If you want to do load development or hit what you're aiming at, I would use nice, shinny new ones out of the box.
 
Or you might go with an inexpensive inertia bullet puller (hammer) which doesn't touch the bullet at all, leaving no ring.
 
If it is that big of a concern why pull them? Just throw them in the trash and do what you meant too!. Sounds like you wasted plenty of money on a collet type puller so just throw away the brass and jacked up handloads. $.02
 


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