22 hornet casings bulging

[Dean2]

Federal Small pistol primer, softer primer helps groups a whole bunch, 12.6 grain LilGun and 40 Grain Blitzking, 3100 fps. I shoot this exact same load out of 6 differnt Hornets. Worst one shots .75 at 100, best on wuill shoot that to .3 at 100

Load above out of a box stock 22 Hornet Browning Micro-Bolt in Left Hand. Squares on the target are 1/2" per side.

 

[Longwalker]

Do you use the Lee Neck Sizer die?
I ask because I just purchased a Hornet, and I'm in the process of buying the right handloading tools for it.

Cheers!

i have a Lee die set. I like the neck sizer die but not the bullet seater. I had to contact Lee and get another bullet nose plug or whatever it's called, the one for my hornet die would not seat bullets deep enough. I stole the one out of my .222 die set and it worked OK. I contacted Lee and they sent me a proper replacement, but in the meantime I started using a RCBS seating die and have not looked back.

 

[Dean2]

I have Lee, and 2 RCBS neck sizers, one for .223 bullets and one for .224. I prefer the RCBS neck dies for the Hornet. My favourite seating die for the Hornet is the Hornady seating die. I have one set for one OAL that I most commonly use, and use the RCBS seating die set for my secondary use OAL.

 

[steve62]

I have the RCBS FL 2 piece die set 10201. Seems to work well once I got it set Right. But you can buy three Lee pacemaker die sets for the price of this one.