Mike1943Ret
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- Jul 1, 2013
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Firstly I'm new to the forum and hello to everyone. I'm Mike, retired, and hail from Colorado.
I know there's been a thread or two on the Swedish 9mm kptr m/39 "plastic" bullet training ammo regarding pulling the bakelite bullets and reloading the Norma cases, however I can't find an answer to this question : how do you pull these ?#$@##? bullets? They're seated very tightly and use a lacquer (or possibly just some kind of paint) bullet sealant. There was a post some years ago on THR where a member who had reloaded 30 rounds as a trial and shot them in a Kahr K9 with complete success and asked the same question (about pulling the bullets) of another poster who said he's pulled the same bullets and had the same successful results but he didn't say how he pulled the bullets.
I don't have a kinetic puller nor have I tried to use one reckoning that the bullet would simply be too light for a kinetic to work. I have tried the RCBS collet puller (I use a basic Rock Chucker Supreme setup) and it's a no-go as the hard bakelite bullet either just slips from the collet or fractures off and leaves a stub in the case. As you may know the bullet has a central hole running from the base to about half way to the spherically blunted tangent ogive that carries the 5mm steel ball ... if the bullet were solid perhaps it would not shatter/snap so easily but I did tap the bullets back into the case (slightly and carefully) to break the sealant before attempting to pull them.
I have no problem with them being Berdan primed cases. When I lived in Europe I used to decap Berdan primed brass regularly using a two pin manual tool and (IIRC) used 4521 primer but that was a long time ago and even if I don't reload the brass I know it'll be good for at least one firing. Money is tight (now there's a new one!) and I have a lot of these rounds.
Has anyone tried out the new GRIP-N-PULL bullet puller (on GB and a nice video on youtube) - it looks as though it might allow some "feel" to the pressure one applies whilst gripping the bullet.
Thanks in advance for your help - THR member posts come up all the time in my Google searches on just about every topic. Glad to be aboard and have a great July 4th everyone.
I know there's been a thread or two on the Swedish 9mm kptr m/39 "plastic" bullet training ammo regarding pulling the bakelite bullets and reloading the Norma cases, however I can't find an answer to this question : how do you pull these ?#$@##? bullets? They're seated very tightly and use a lacquer (or possibly just some kind of paint) bullet sealant. There was a post some years ago on THR where a member who had reloaded 30 rounds as a trial and shot them in a Kahr K9 with complete success and asked the same question (about pulling the bullets) of another poster who said he's pulled the same bullets and had the same successful results but he didn't say how he pulled the bullets.
I don't have a kinetic puller nor have I tried to use one reckoning that the bullet would simply be too light for a kinetic to work. I have tried the RCBS collet puller (I use a basic Rock Chucker Supreme setup) and it's a no-go as the hard bakelite bullet either just slips from the collet or fractures off and leaves a stub in the case. As you may know the bullet has a central hole running from the base to about half way to the spherically blunted tangent ogive that carries the 5mm steel ball ... if the bullet were solid perhaps it would not shatter/snap so easily but I did tap the bullets back into the case (slightly and carefully) to break the sealant before attempting to pull them.
I have no problem with them being Berdan primed cases. When I lived in Europe I used to decap Berdan primed brass regularly using a two pin manual tool and (IIRC) used 4521 primer but that was a long time ago and even if I don't reload the brass I know it'll be good for at least one firing. Money is tight (now there's a new one!) and I have a lot of these rounds.
Has anyone tried out the new GRIP-N-PULL bullet puller (on GB and a nice video on youtube) - it looks as though it might allow some "feel" to the pressure one applies whilst gripping the bullet.
Thanks in advance for your help - THR member posts come up all the time in my Google searches on just about every topic. Glad to be aboard and have a great July 4th everyone.