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    What to do after bullet pulling?

    I just took delivery today from my most recent MidwayUSA order containing enough odds and ends to keep me busy for awhile. One of those things was a new hammer style bullet puller. I used to have one but seems I misplaced it during my move last year as it hasn’t turned up.

    Anyway, what do all of you fine folks do with the cases after you’ve pulled bullets? It’s been so long since I last used a puller that I truly don’t remember if I just pressed a new bullet in or if I had to resize the case again and then back to loading as usual. Figure it wouldn’t be a bad thing to ask here as it has the ability to help a new reloader if they end up here too.


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    Resize the neck.

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    Depends on which gun your shooting it in. --- SAWMAN

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    I neck size the brass.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SAWMAN View Post
    Depends on which gun your shooting it in. --- SAWMAN
    In this case it is a .30-06 bolt action. But what instances would dictate differences?


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    etermine whether the case will chamber in the intended rifle. If not full length resizing is needed.
    If the primer is worth keeping you can pull the depriming pin. (For that matter, you can use a "body" die to resize loaded rounds.)
    You'll peel the copper jacket if the neck's too tight.
    (Factory Crimped cases are always too tight.)
    Neck sizing is easy, no mess. But you need the neck size die.

    Jerry rigger's approach...push a tapered round drift punch into the case mouth JUST enough to bell it SLIGHTLY
    so it doesn't scrape the copper jacket, and still fits in the crimping die.





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