Thread: 22 Hornet Curved Die Plug

I'm reloading 22 Hornet using a REDDING DELUXE DIE SET which is virtually brand new.
The die plus has a sharp shoulder, which puts a ring indentation on the olgile (ABC?) of the Winchester 40grn HP CANN FB projectiles. I have 200 of these to load and don't want to dent them! These projectiles are the last, of the last, of the old Winchester 22 Magnum half jacket projectiles which Rick W used to buy by the bucket full, and sell by the weighted scoop (not count). I tried to buy a bell shaped, or trumpet shaped REDDING plug, but when it arrived it had the hard shoulder exactly like the first one!

So here is the request, could I please borrow a REDDING plus, or another Brand of seating die, which has a bell, or trumpet shaped plug that won't dent the projectiles. Maybe this is a pistol plug? I don't know???

These projectiles are the only ones which the die dents!!!???? All the rest are fine??

The last weird thing about these projectiles is they vary in length!? I've batched them into three lengths:
- 0.452
- 0.455
- 0.457 - 0.460
So what the process here? Or do in load the longest ones to a specified length, then dial the plug down as the projectiles get shorter. This, I think, will put the base at at the same spacing above the powder, which (in my mind) will keep pressure the same?[

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Maybe...put a plug of gorilla snot in the cavity of the plug you already have..you can remove later on.something like no more nails perhaps?

I have loaded 100s of these projectiles and they all have this ring as they are very soft only being plated lead.
Only way to fix it is to turn seater button to match nose of bullet.
Lyman supply different nose pins for their bullet lube sizers as cast bullets deform easily .

hi I use a lee flaring tool on my cases for these I have a few of them they are sharpe little buggers

What are the dimensions of the plug you have vs what you need? Can't be too hard to knock one out on the lathe?

As far as the variation in pills, if you have a set of digital powder scales pick one of each pill and weigh them. If there is difference in weight between the three lengths that would be more of a concern for me than the actual length and I'd be sorting into three weight batches. Then load and shoot...

If they all weigh the same, then I'd be checking two things, the cannelure groove is the same distance from the base on all of them and the second is the ogive measurement - likely if the weight and groove is the same the difference will be the nose profile most likely which would probably be due to the tooling having slight differences in profile. If it's the ogive measurement that is the only difference - I would be fairly confident to just bang them off as it would not make too much of a difference for a Hornet from my experience.