Is it a bad idea to pull out?

[Caseknife]

Don't get a kinetic bullet puller, total PITA. Get one of these, https://grip-n-pull.com/, easy to use and have much more control over the process. Yes, you will need to resize the neck to get proper neck tension. Mono's like speed, I would use either the 130 or 150 TTSX and get closer to 2800-3000fps.

 

[cal30_sniper]

I do this quite often. It’s a 45 minute drive to the range, so I often take a large load ladder that I don’t get all the way up through before hitting pressure signs.

As one other said, it’s a really good idea to reset neck tension after pulling bullets. If you’re using a standard die, just back out the decapper enough that it won’t pop the primer out and run them through the sizing die again before re-charging and reseating the bullet. If you don’t do this, chances are you’ll end up with at least a few bullets than can be moved in the case by hand when you’re done.

Make sure the case is truly empty of powder before you recharge (sometimes static can cause pellets to cling inside the case). Also make sure you weight each charge as a unit from zero (measure out 44grs, don’t just add 1.0grs to the presumed 43grs of powder you pulled out).

 

[Tobe_B]

Don’t be dumb, shoot in the bum?

New tag line. I love it.

 

[Tobe_B]

I’d just shoot the rounds and reload new ones. Good trigger time.

 

[AM_Hunter]

@One300wsm I dont know why its not letting me directly reply to you but its the garmin Chrono. Its in line with my buddys speed too, hes shooting 44 gr out of 20" and getting about 2670.

I've got a whole extra 1". I constantly remind him about that too

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[grfox92]

Trying to avoid the kids for a few more years, which means I should pull out?

I have 4 kids. Trust me. Pull out.

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[ColPenguin]

I would use a kinetic puller to pull them. It would not take long and I wouldn’t expect it to hurt the monolithic bullets.

A collet puller is so fast. It will not deform the bullet to an extent to noticeably affect accuracy of the load.

May depend on the specific kinetic puller. But I would think a collet puller would be much less chance of powder spill and waste, than a kinetic puller.

 

[Megalodon]

40 rounds is about a third of a quick range trip.

I don’t mean this to be offensive, but if you’re stressing over touching off 40 rounds I’m going to guess you could use the trigger time.

 

[North of 60]

Using a kinetic puller isn't that difficult and has collets for various diameter cases...and I probably lose more powder grains emptying my electronic powder scale after charging a bunch of cases and need to switch powders.

 

[BFR]

Definitely collet puller, easy and no chance of hammer breaking. Oh and not as noisy. I just did 40 rounds of test loads for my grandsons new rifle. No accuracy or just slower than other loads. I have an old RCBS press set up just for that and a dedicated quick change neck die set up for my Dillon 550.

 

[AM_Hunter]

@Megalodon Doesnt have anything to do with trigger time, I just dont want to use up $50 of components plus time to reload when I could be using those components and time working on creating a new dope for a new load.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

The pulled bullets will be fine.

Unless you break the tips off with that stupid hammer thing.

Just shoot what you have. I did the same thing a few years ago, had a few hundred rounds loaded up for my 30-06, they ahot great then I got a chronograph and saw they were like 2575 fps. I wanted more velocity so I made new ones that got me to 2700fps and shot even better.

I thought about pulling the bullets but I just kept using them, I even hunted and shot several animals with them and had no issues. Moving forward I use the new load.

 

[ReddingArcher]

I don’t know, I’ve found that once it’s loaded and ready to be shot, it’s almost impossible to pull out.

 

[Davyalabama]

You said it did better ---- are we talking just chrono numbers or are we talking group numbers?

1) I'll take group numbers any day over chrono numbers.
2) It takes many more than one or two 3-5 shot groups to tell you exactly what you want to know. I could burn up that 40 you have just making sure of my groups.
3) None of it means "Jack" if you can't put that first bullet, cold bore, heart rate way up, shotting the way you would in the field, exactly where you want it to go.

 

[North of 60]

Unless you break the tips off with that stupid hammer thing.

Just shoot what you have. I did the same thing a few years ago, had a few hundred rounds loaded up for my 30-06, they ahot great then I got a chronograph and saw they were like 2575 fps. I wanted more velocity so I made new ones that got me to 2700fps and shot even better.

I thought about pulling the bullets but I just kept using them, I even hunted and shot several animals with them and had no issues. Moving forward I use the new load.

Good point if they are soft polymer tips and i don't have enough variety of polymer tips to know...most of mine are HP and the fewer ones i have that are polymer haven't completely mangled the polymer tips.

When i pull bullets i use successively gentler raps of the hammer getting a bullet out regardless of HP, FMJ, solid or polymer tip and that may be why mine don't get mangled.

 

[dieselchessy]

Id pull them with a collet puller or shoot them and reload with the 130 ttsx. As was suggested above.
In my opinion you’d get better performance out of a 308. Unless of course, your gun doesn't shoot the 130 well.
With mono’s many folks prefer light and fast.

 

[5MilesBack]

I have some UM rounds that were blowing primers, so used my kinetic puller on about 90 rounds to decrease the powder load. I reloaded without changing the neck tension and they shoot great.

 

[Mattyq17]

When in doubt, pull out...

 

[Megalodon]

@Megalodon Doesnt have anything to do with trigger time, I just dont want to use up $50 of components plus time to reload when I could be using those components and time working on creating a new dope for a new load.

Meh, I stand by what I said. If you're not shooting on the low end 500+ rounds of practice on fundamentals, wind, and positioning in a year then 100 fps difference isn't going to matter jack for a hunting scenario. It'll get you from 800y to 870y expansion velocity LOL.

$50 is a drop in the bucket for the due diligence you should be doing for a hunting round. It doesn't matter if you practice with a 2550 or a 2650 fps round.

 

[dchum]

Id pull them with a collet puller or shoot them and reload with the 130 ttsx. As was suggested above.
In my opinion you’d get better performance out of a 308. Unless of course, your gun doesn't shoot the 130 well.
With mono’s many folks prefer light and fast.

agreed, as mentioned - those 168ttsx at sub 2600fps MV will be sub optimal in terms of killing. I used factory 165 CX’s in my 18inch 308win and it truly was lack luster on deer.

I love the 168ttsx inside 300 yards at around 2800fps though!