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hounddawg · November 21, 2017, 04:23 PM

if I were buying a puller I would definitely give the Hornady serious consideration after reading that review. One question though. With the RCBS you can vary the pullers grip force when tightening the collet to minimize the scarring of the bullet. Is the lever preset or can you adjust the force by how hard or far you pull it back ?

By the way slightly scarred bullets shoot fine. Like some one told me, that little ring goes away about 1 millisecond after the bullet hits the lands. Once when I used a load that I normally used for a slightly lighter bullet weight. I realized it half way through a batch of 50. With the heavier bullet they would have been at high end of the Hogdon load data. I had loaded thirty rounds and wavered between doing a pressure work up set to see if they were safe and shooting them or pulling and reloading. I pulled em but instead of trashing the bullets I reloaded them to use as barrel warmers/foulers. When I shot a group to get the barrel warm and dirty I was pleasantly surprised when it shot a normal group

November 21, 2017, 04:23 PM	#5
hounddawg Senior Member Join Date: March 1, 2009 Posts: 4,232	if I were buying a puller I would definitely give the Hornady serious consideration after reading that review. One question though. With the RCBS you can vary the pullers grip force when tightening the collet to minimize the scarring of the bullet. Is the lever preset or can you adjust the force by how hard or far you pull it back ? By the way slightly scarred bullets shoot fine. Like some one told me, that little ring goes away about 1 millisecond after the bullet hits the lands. Once when I used a load that I normally used for a slightly lighter bullet weight. I realized it half way through a batch of 50. With the heavier bullet they would have been at high end of the Hogdon load data. I had loaded thirty rounds and wavered between doing a pressure work up set to see if they were safe and shooting them or pulling and reloading. I pulled em but instead of trashing the bullets I reloaded them to use as barrel warmers/foulers. When I shot a group to get the barrel warm and dirty I was pleasantly surprised when it shot a normal group __________________ “How do I get to the next level?” Well, you get to the next level by being the first one on the range and the last one to leave.” – Jerry Miculek Last edited by hounddawg; November 21, 2017 at 04:29 PM.