Thread: Help - stuck bolt

Thanks all for the sage advice. Being an impatient bugger and prone to ingoring those much wiser than myself, I gave it a gentle tap with a rubber mallet. Out it came.

The spent cartridge had a shiny ring of abrasion around the base, so I’m thinking I should have FL sized them. I usually just give a little shoulder bump, but there’s a chance these came from someone else (memory is terrible these days). Checked another round and the same thing.

Bummer… anyone got a bullet puller I can borrow?!

Bummer… anyone got a bullet puller I can borrow?![/QUOTE]

Yes.

Oh, and yup - it’s got the weird cross pin bolt design. Thanks for the explanation, I wondered why it was like that as it seemed pretty easy to wiggle loose

poke loaded round in press with no die...lift round up through threaded hole and carefully hold projectile with vice grips,you can pull projectile by backing the case back down...you might loose 1 in 30 projectiles to grooves from grips..or not. I have never damaged one beyond usable. have hammer type puller now.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

poke loaded round in press with no die...lift round up through threaded hole and carefully hold projectile with vice grips,you can pull projectile by backing the case back down...you might loose 1 in 30 projectiles to grooves from grips..or not. I have never damaged one beyond usable. have hammer type puller now.

What Mick said and put some tyre-tube rubber inside the jaws - provides more grip and less damaging