Ammunition Dismantling

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Ammunition Dismantling

#1 Post by Dangermouse »

Over the weekend I have realised that I still have 60 190 grain rounds made up for my old barrel.

I will not be using these in my current set up, so need to dismantle them.

If I pull the heads, using a kinetic hammer - It is all I have, can I
Use the heads again (thinking of giving them to a friend who is playing with 190's), and re use the powder.

I read recently of the trick of putting a foam ear protector in the hammer to protect the metplat, sounds good and I will do that.

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#2 Post by dodgyrog »

Yes you can use it all again.
What are heads? Do you mean bullets?
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#3 Post by Jenks »

dodgyrog wrote:Yes you can use it all again.
What are heads? Do you mean bullets?

Heads are where sailors meet their friends. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ;)
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LOL

Gosh, we have been here before, haven't we.
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#5 Post by dromia »

And obviously time to go there again by the looks of it. :twisted:

"Heads" its almost as bad a misuse of words as "nice".

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Projectiles, quite a tinny word I think whereas Head is quite a woody word
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Dangermouse wrote:Over the weekend I have realised that I still have 60 190 grain rounds made up for my old barrel.

I will not be using these in my current set up, so need to dismantle them.

If I pull the heads, using a kinetic hammer - It is all I have, can I
Use the heads again (thinking of giving them to a friend who is playing with 190's), and re use the powder.

I read recently of the trick of putting a foam ear protector in the hammer to protect the metplat, sounds good and I will do that.

DM
I've done exactly that and put an ear plug in the bottom of my hammer and it does work.

I have also now bought an RCBS collet type bullet puller that works well and caused minimal marking to the bullet.

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#9 Post by The Gun Pimp »

Dangermouse wrote:
If I pull the heads, using a kinetic hammer - It is all I have, can I
Use the heads again and re use the powder.

I read recently of the trick of putting a foam ear protector in the hammer to protect the metplat, sounds good and I will do that.

DM
DM - the foam ear plug is an ecellent idea (but it could cause the bullet to rebound and could dent the case mouth - done that!) as the delicate meplat is easily damaged.

I definitely wouldn't use pulled bullets in a comp. but OK for running-in a barrel.

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