I broke my RCBS inertial bullet puller. Did the handle break.....No. Did the body break from hitting it on my big wooden block...No. The screw -on part that holds the bullet in place SHATTERED.

I've had it more than a few years, and it just plain gave out. I had gotten my technique down with it to take only a few whacks/bullet. I like it and it's pretty tough, so I bought another one.

Anybody have this happen???

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I haven't broken mine, but I'm surprised how much of a beating they take. I have a scrap of Brazilian Cherry that I use for a block (super hard hardwood) and it actually has dents from the strikes.

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Yep, had the same exact thing happen to mine. I went to the RCBS website and contacted them about it and they sent me a new screw cap to replace the shattered one for free. I suggest you do the same and you will have 2 working kinetic bullet pullers then. They are great about replacing broken stuff!

Yup.Broke mine the same way a few years ago. Bought another one.

Had mine for about ten years before the handle broke.

Lead cannelure bullets are the worst........
Jacket are not quite s bad and .............
9mm slide right out.

Got to love those smooth sides on the pistol bullets.

Wood is good.
Cement and metal are killers.

Had one the cap cracked on... put electrical tape around it and it's still working. don't use a wooden block..I use a good chunk of Rail road tie. Got bunches of 'em

My cap broke too. Bought a Frankford to replace it. It must be that cheap Chinese plastic. 8-)

The RCBS directions say to not rap it on a metal surface - I wonder why?

Guess I've had mine 30+ years and think I bought it used. Still holding together, although to be honest, I haven't used it all that much over the years. Couple goods taps on a hard wood surface usually does the trick :-) Much like my Reloader Special press from 1978-still works after all these years!

A railroad tie is wood. do you mean a piece of rail (track)? Larry

Oh, yes it is, isn't it...I read "tie" as rail also.

No I mean a railroad tie(wood). I have kinda mushed the end of one of the impact pullers on an anvil. And a small piece or two kinda chipped off. The railroad guys were replacing some ties..and I asked what they did with the ones removed and they gave 'em to me..even loaded 'em on my trailer..gave me 2 new ones too. That trailer was a bit overloaded(22 ties). Luckily I only had to travel about 5 miles. I use a 30 inch piece of tie as a pounding block. I used a bunch of the ties for landscaping and for the base of a bridge over the irrigation canal. I took 'em a couple cases of beer to the motel they were staying at that evening.

Just don't ever toss a rail tie or telephone pole part into the.......
indoor fire place.

They are soaked with cresol !!

Make great garden walls, though.

When I got the darn things they still had the metal thingies that hold the track in place. Big ol screws hold 'em in and then there were plates that hold the track on road crossings. 500 pounds of scrap arn. .. Going to the scrap yard this spring along with some old farm machinery. I might get 'nuff to buy a S&W....speaking of which I was offered one to buy yesterday..A model 24

Your post #6 said don't use a block of wood, you use a railroad tie. That made me think you had rail and tie confused. Why is a tie not a block of wood? Do I need to take a reading comprehension course? Larry

This is a chunk.. A block of wood to me is like a 2x6 or something. I used to use a piece of hardwood floor..Maple. It didn't last too long even if it was pretty. I use a 4 foot piece of tie, New one. On one end I have an old Herter's 3A press with a decapping die made by Sinclair that I use mainly for rifle cartridges. It's all mounted on an old library table I got for like 10 bucks. I can do the whack a mole on that thing and never hurt my bullet puller. Well not much..I have bent the metal handle a little. It isn't all that pretty...but I did sand three sides of it with a belt sander. It's the table I use to trim cases with the Giraud trimmer. Stable as you could want though

l never have hit mine on wood.. Always used a 4'' disc of

lead that weighs a couple pounds

Franklin Armory, I use from 458 Lott, 458 Socom, 375 H&H down to 308, no problem ever.
RCBS different story!

Bought mine in the late '80s.I had over 1K 9mm rds to undo.Use it on my shop"s concrete floor.Still works great for the 1 or 2/1000rds that need undone(mostly primer upside down from progressive reloaders).
Qc

Mine's a Frankford Arsenal, IIRC. It's blue with an aluminum handle shaft.
I whack it on the cement floor. I tried smacking one of the upright support posts in my shop and it didn't work so well. The concrete floor works great!

And railroad ties are soaked in creosote. If you burn creosote soaked wood in your fireplace or wood stove it will coat the inside of your flue and you run a serious risk of a chimney fire. Not to mention that some forms of creosote are carcinogens.

"..A model 24"....just what I'm longing for....

I use a 12' section of old steel rail; my little green hammer Newton's 3rd law of thermodynamics-tester, has been in service about 35 years.

Every decade or so I need to get new aluminum shell holder inserts, as the ones with the semi=rimmed cases seem to have a critical discrete dimension for best results.

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I occasionally break an inertia bullet puller, I've never bought one though. The prize tables at most matches are determined by random draw (instead of performance in the match) but with my luck, I seem to get my name drawn at the end of the list where the only prizes left are either empty ammo boxes (the plastic kind), $50 off an optometry exam at a local Dr office (and I live 500 miles away, or inertia hammer pullers. Right now I have about 10 of the pullers and am choosing ammo boxes until my supply runs down then I'll switch back to inertia hammers. Maybe one of these days my name will be drawn on one of the guns they give away, but I'm not holding my breath.

I broke one - an RCBS.
I bought another years ago and am still using it.

wyo-man

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^^^ This...

Still have the original RCBS unit from years ago. It has been banged on everything from the garage concrete floor to the rear bumper of my truck. Tough little guy.

Within the enclosed confines of my shop, I have to put on hearing protection to use my Lyman puller to strike a block of wood on the concrete floor. Not sure why my ears are so sensitive ....

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