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

[Brant Buster]

Thanks! BTW, for your posts.

I didn't express myself as well as I had hoped.

How does one ONLY SIZE THE NECK on a Hornet case without "working" the brass at least two, or three times in the process? That's what I meant to ask - about "technique."

Consider ......

When you buy new brass or take a once-fired cases, or reload for a different gun than you've previously been shooting, you have to FL-size the case - even to initially prep the case (trimming, chamferring, cleaning up the flash hole/primer pocket).

As you insert the brass into the die, the decapping pin/expander ball goes through the neck - possibly expanding the neck slightly.

As the case continues up into the die, EVERYTHING including the neck is sized DOWN.

Then as you go through the down stroke that pulls the resized case out of the die, the expander ball again resizes the neck/case mouth.

My point is 'the neck of the Hornet case has been "worked" two or three times.'

Somewhere I read how to only work the neck only ONCE!

Once the case has been fired once in a bolt gun or single-shot like a T/C Encore or Contender, what I would do is use a bushing-type neck die with a decapping pin that has NO EXPANDER BALL on it, or one in .17 or .20 caliber.

Maybe there's no getting around that initial full-length sizing.

Comments?