How do I safely pull bullets and dump powders from old ammo

[Mgderf]

No, that wasn't it.
It was something about a particular type of ammo maybe blowing up in your face.
Something about a steel core or something. I can't recall.

 

[sloughfoot]

Any reason why you don't just shoot them? Then just yank the bullet on those that don't fire?

Funny, I was just thinking about this while loading a bucket of 308 ammo tonight. If I don't wake up in the morning, I want the kids to know that what they find on the shelf is perfectly safe to shoot.

 

[OutdoorDad]

Any reason why you don't just shoot them? Then just yank the bullet on those that don't fire?

Funny, I was just thinking about this while loading a bucket of 308 ammo tonight. If I don't wake up in the morning, I want the kids to know that what they find on the shelf is perfectly safe to shoot.

10 ring.

Much easier to "de prime" that way.

 

[17 squirrel]

No, that wasn't it.
It was something about a particular type of ammo maybe blowing up in your face.
Something about a steel core or something. I can't recall.

Well about the only small caliber bullet I can think of I would not use a hammer puller on would be a 50 BMG spotter tracer round. They have a red and yellow paint ring on the bullet nose. Some of those rounds have a large primer pressed in the nose of the bullet so when it hits it makes sure the spotter charge ignites.. Then that found it was not nessessery to have the primer. When those rounds are pulled a collet puller was used. Other than that I can't think of any bullet I would not pull with a Wacker. There might be, but I have never heard of one you can't.

 

[OutdoorDad]

Maybe "don't use on rimfire rounds"?

Because that is a really bad idea.

 

[Vamptepes]

No, that wasn't it.
It was something about a particular type of ammo maybe blowing up in your face.
Something about a steel core or something. I can't recall.

Wasn't that some of the imported like .308 or maybe 30/06 that was mislabeled and was incendiary loads or something? i remember reading about it last year.