Hornady Cam Lock Bullet Puller 050095 - Reloading Equipment to Quickly Pull Bullets with Your Press - Save Your Bullets, Brass, & Powder for Future Loading - Uses Standard Collets (Sold Separately)

Works really well. A few trial/ errors in getting the collet to properly grip the projectile for remove. 100x better than the inertial hammer method. Marks on the pull projectile were very minor to almost none. While the provided instructions were clear, watching a couple of internet videos realy helped in set up the puller to my press.

Works great for multiple bullet removal. Must use hornady collet. Separate purchase for specific caliber. Quality as expected.

Are you kidding me? Use this or a bullet hammer? Nothing could be easier for removing a bullet fro the case. Easy to use and no banging the hammer.

The straight line action of the top mounted collet lever allows this puller to work in the crowded die plate of progressive presses. I swap out the powder check in station 3 of the Dillon 650 when I need to rework bullets. It's a single-stage press at this point, since the puller die seats too low to allow the 650 to cycle properly. I am able to pull the bullet, manually check the powder charge, and then re-insert into the press to re-seat and crimp. The pulled bullet is held securely enough, and releases with a light nudge on the collet lever. I suppose jarring the press will also cause the bullet to drop, but I'm not often that clumsy. The collet adjustment is critical. It should grip as near the start of the ogive as possible, with no chance of grabbing any part of the case neck. I had initially set it loose enough to grab the neck and cam over the top on the lever. This had two really bad effects. The ruined case is bad enough. Camming over the top can peen the top of the hardened collet bar, causing it to mushroom and jam inside the die body. It took a bit of doing to drive out the 1/4" pivot pin, knockout the hard stuck bar, and then grind a relief bevel around its top so it can't jam again. (Just don't let it cam over.)

Awesome tool when you need it.

I have an embarrassingly large tub of failed reloads I've been meaning to pull and figured this would help save time over using my kinetic puller. It works great for rifle bullets and you can even reuse them if you adjust it just right. As far as pistol bullets, it works fine on 9mm 115 and 124 round nose jacketed but will not grip good enough on any of the lead bullets I've tried, it just squishes them and slips off. That is OK, I kind of expected that. I'll have to use the old kinetic puller on those. For rifle bullets like I said, if you adjust it properly you can get real nice pulls that can be reused at least for plinking ammo. It's quick to use, too. And easier/quieter than the hammer style kinetic pullers.

This was easy to put together and screw into my old Lee single stage press. It’s easy to use too as long as you carefully follow the instructions, especially these two things. First, don’t let any part of the case get inside the collet or it could get stuck and when you get it out, doubtful you’ll be able to used again, as I found out. Also, too much pressure all leave marks so bad on the bullet it will be unusable. You can find the correct collet below. For example 10mm and 40S&E are both have a diameter of .400” so I used 0.410 / 0.416 #11 / 392164 and it worked perfectly. HORNADY CAM LOCK™ BULLET PULLER COLLETS BULLET DIA. COLLET NO. 0.172 #1 / 392154 0.204 #14 / 392167 0.223 #2 / 392155 0.243 #3 / 392156 0.257 / 0.264 #4 / 392157 BULLET DIA. COLLET NO. 0.277 #5 / 392158 0.284 #6 / 392159 0.308 / 0.312 #7 / 392160 0.321 / 0.323 #8 / 392161 0.338 / 0.358 #9 / 392162 BULLET DIA. COLLET NO. 0.375 #10 / 392163 0.410 / 0.416 #11 / 392164 0.430 #12 / 392165 0.451 / 0.458 #13 / 392166

Update: pulled a number of other calibers and bullet types, once you get the depth and cam engagement you could even potentially save the bullets for re-use. At a minimum, you can recover the powder, case & primer. Works very well, much better than the cheap bullet impact pullers, the only well designed bullet pullers using an impact design were the ones with the auto-collect in the back of the bullet puller head, but the company appears to have gone out of business and mine finally broke. This system will not break in that type of failure mode, and no shock to the primer/powder/case/bullet. Works great on .223 bullets, pulled a few hundred rounds of defective remanufactured ammo for a friend who was sold the ammo without mentioning it was remanufactured (out of spec). Bought the extra collets but haven't tried the others yet. Very fast and easy once you set it correctly.

Tricky to start with but once you get the knack it is fast, no damage to heads, and Powder is neatly saved.

Benutze die Matritze um 6,5 CM und 308 win Geschosse zu entfernen. Funktioniert tadellos!

This is a great piece of kit, you need to also purchase the appropriate calibre size collet. This is far quicker and less fiddly than a kinetic bullet 'hammer' type puller.

great piece of kit,

It has been a great help, once I set it properly for my reloaded 6.5 Creedmore rounds. For longer ammunition, you cannot set it by the directions. You need to set it so the bullet just enters the collet and the casing is just below. Hold the ram in this position, and close the handle on the Bullet Puller then lower the ram to remove the bullet.