Whack-a- Mole

[.308 Norma]

I put some paper towel in the bottom as to not deform pointed soft tip bullets

A foam ear plug works well too.

 

[drband]

The FA comes with a little square bit of soft rubber in the bottom.

 

[crestoncowboy]

Walmart sales a green one btw

 

[Dudedog]

Had a Cabelas hammer type, it broke after a few years.
Bought the RCBS one next, lifetime warranty and parts are available.(it has not broken yet)

 

[GW Staar]

Mine's 45 years old.....before anyone made a commercial one. Today I'd just buy a green plastic one.....except mine still works....and likely will out last me. (got the plans out of "Handloader".(...yup....the magazine is that old.) Parts are still available from Home Depot. Uses regular shell holders with an epoxy insert to keep the case centered in the holder and foam top and bottom. Top to prevent vertical shell holder movement, and bottom to cushion dropped bullets. Painted the dropped bullet reservoir red so I wouldn't hit the wrong end.

No warranty, no service, build at your own risk.

 

[Dudedog]

GW Staar,
that's probably banned in CA as an Assault puller
For sure if the handle is more than 10" long

(I have to try to laugh about it otherwise I would cry, retirement and free State are on the horizon....)

 

[GW Staar]

As a weapon that thing would be deadly for sure.....I think is was invented in CA......maybe it was a double use tool. When you retire don't come to my state.....stop in Arizona or go on through to Texas. The liberals have a strangle hold here right now. All it takes for them to confiscate your arms is for someone to go to the police and testify that you want to kill some one, or are mentally or emotionally unstable. True or not. Then you gotta go to court to prove it isn't true to get them back......not the America of the Free we used to enjoy. We have a new liberal female governor.....who'd a thought that would happen outside California and New York? not me.

 

[nettlle]

Don't understand what you want?

You say "Not the collet type"

and then say

"Different collet methods (like shell holders) and advice for these appreciated".

So do you want a hammer or a press operated type??

If you want a Kinetic type hammer they all work the same. I have the RCBS

I should have been more clear. Not the collet type used in a single stage press but rather an inertia puller. The Quinetics looks pretty good.

 

[Tilos]

Mine's 45 years old.....before anyone made a commercial one. Today I'd just buy a green plastic one.....except mine still works....and likely will out last me. (got the plans out of "Handloader".(...yup....the magazine is that old.) Parts are still available from Home Depot. Uses regular shell holders with an epoxy insert to keep the case centered in the holder and foam top and bottom. Top to prevent vertical shell holder movement, and bottom to cushion dropped bullets. Painted the dropped bullet reservoir red so I wouldn't hit the wrong end.

No warranty, no service, build at your own risk.

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Nice
Gave me the idea of adding some weight to my green plastic one, to reduce the number of whacks required
Probably void the warrantee though

 

[Tilos]

A foam ear plug works well too.

Yeh but, powder gets in my ear from that

 

[Bull Nutria]

RC Model would really like this homemade whack a mole!!

Bull

 

[cfullgraf]

Mine's 45 years old.....before anyone made a commercial one. Today I'd just buy a green plastic one.....except mine still works....and likely will out last me. (got the plans out of "Handloader".(...yup....the magazine is that old.) Parts are still available from Home Depot. Uses regular shell holders with an epoxy insert to keep the case centered in the holder and foam top and bottom. Top to prevent vertical shell holder movement, and bottom to cushion dropped bullets. Painted the dropped bullet reservoir red so I wouldn't hit the wrong end.

No warranty, no service, build at your own risk.

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Cool! I bet the extra weight makes un-seating the bullet easier.

 

[Old Stumpy]

My first bullet puller was a 1" pipe nipple about 6" long with an assortment of washers and cut-away washers for shell holders.
I used a piece of bicycle inner tube draped over the end to hold it together when in use.
It worked, but the caveman approach got old fast.
I just use an RCBS hammer now. It does everything that I need it to.

 

[GW Staar]

Cool! I bet the extra weight makes un-seating the bullet easier.

Yes it does......it also can break a cement stoop.....ask me how I know that..... It's really smarter if you beat in the middle of a concrete floor, not close to an edge. Being a contractor it's not hard for me to pour a new stoop.......sigh.....would have preferred not to have to. Would like to find a used small anvil.....seems to me to be the best of surfaces....and useful for other things as well.

 

[Rule3]

Mine's 45 years old.....before anyone made a commercial one. Today I'd just buy a green plastic one.....except mine still works....and likely will out last me. (got the plans out of "Handloader".(...yup....the magazine is that old.) Parts are still available from Home Depot. Uses regular shell holders with an epoxy insert to keep the case centered in the holder and foam top and bottom. Top to prevent vertical shell holder movement, and bottom to cushion dropped bullets. Painted the dropped bullet reservoir red so I wouldn't hit the wrong end.

No warranty, no service, build at your own risk.

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If you bought those parts today you would be Red Flagged to the BATFE!!!

 

[GW Staar]

Right (I know you are tongue-in-cheek).....buying gas pipe could be construed to be parts for to make a stove connection.......and you could, on purpose, leave the gas on.....and fill up a house....which then becomes a bomb, right? Who knows maybe such a tool caused Notre Dame to burn down.

These days such logic can't surprise me. After all front page news in my location, this very day, is that we shouldn't allow oil and gas locations within 10 miles of the Chaco Canyon Anasazi Historical site.....because it would destroy water and air quality there (60 miles in the middle of the desert in nowhere)..........but it's okay to have dozens inside the city limits where live people live. (2 within a mile of my central town location). No, they don't leak methane in the air or in the water.....don't know they are there except when I drive by. (shouldn't have wrote this....some might construe this as political....but its not.....just the daily fighting off of "stupid"....and I know, you can't fix that, and we've all seen examples of it from both sides of the aisle.)

 

[Rule3]

Right (I know you are tongue-in-cheek).....buying gas pipe could be construed to be parts for to make a stove connection.......and you could, on purpose, leave the gas on.....and fill up a house....which then becomes a bomb, right? Who knows maybe such a tool caused Notre Dame to burn down.

These days such logic can't surprise me. After all front page news in my location, this very day, is that we shouldn't allow oil and gas locations within 10 miles of the Chaco Canyon Anasazi Historical site.....because it would destroy water and air quality there (60 miles in the middle of the desert in nowhere)..........but it's okay to have dozens inside the city limits where live people live. (2 within a mile of my central town location). No, they don't leak methane in the air or in the water.....don't know they are there except when I drive by. (shouldn't have wrote this....some might construe this as political....but its not.....just the daily fighting off of "stupid"....and I know, you can't fix that, and we've all seen examples of it from both sides of the aisle.)

I was thinking of other device that we shall not go into . Seen it on TV Forensic Files.

 

[Texas10mm]

Yes it does......it also can break a cement stoop.....ask me how I know that..... It's really smarter if you beat in the middle of a concrete floor, not close to an edge. Being a contractor it's not hard for me to pour a new stoop.......sigh.....would have preferred not to have to. Would like to find a used small anvil.....seems to me to be the best of surfaces....and useful for other things as well.

Get a block of lead.