Daddybang wrote:Well this is not what I thought this thread would be about!!!!
I, too, was disappointed.
But then I realised it allowed me to talk about pulling with vicegrips - one bullet that is, out from a case.
Yes, it leaves tiny marks on the bullet, but when it's reloaded, it really doesn't seem to hinder accuracy much.
A South African shooting mag had an article many years ago, where the writer went and severely damaged the points of a number of bullets, before reloading them - no great accuracy difference - say from .75 MOA to 1.5 MOA - nothing that a target shooter would accept, but for a hunter that's not too bad. He noticed huge changes when he deformed the base of the bullets, though.
So my little scratches were neither here nor there - I had to do it, since I had two 375H&H rounds that hadn't gone off and I wanted to see what the insides were like. Someone offered me one of those hammer type jobbies, but I was reluctant to take a cartridge that had had its primer solidly indented and subject it to a beating like that.