Reloading the Hornet, K-Hornet, and their wildcats .......

[skeet]

Take the expander ball off the stem or replace with a 20 cal ball..then there is no working of the neck such as you are saying. Also extend the decapping rod as far as necessary to decap the case without working it. I only load for my Ruger and a TC Contender in Hornet. I bought a 100 cases for each. I also had a bunch of OLD cases from the 60's that I loaded and almost every one split on firing. When Rocky gets back he'll probably get ya straight on the Hornet. BTW my Ruger shoots at an inch or slightly under which is better than any 22 Hornet rifle I ever had. And I've had a few.