Using a couple suggestions on here, figured out a method that seems to work better, will tell more in a bit, punched out 150 bullets and only about 8 needed attention,  and those were bullets that I had previously taken old lube out of. 

Made a tool out of a dowel with a small dowel in one end, and a hole in the other. When I tried pushing from the base first, if the dowel slipped off, it would mar the base pretty bad, so I put the end with the hole on over the tip of the bullet and pop it out the base just a bit. Then use the dowel to push the bullet all the way out from the base and got much better coverage.  For the ones that were still funky, I smeared lube in the grooves, then pushed the bullet through a steel sleeve drilled out a couple thousands over bullet diameter to get the excess off