Thread: 22lr Resizing/Hollow Pointing Tool

I spent some time this afternoon trying to make a punch for a truncated cone nose shape. I can tell you now that this is only going to work on the absolute softest ammo, and even then it's pretty hard on the pill. I got some ok results with the projectile forming, have not test fired it yet.
The best way I found was to run the hollow point, then a 45degree flair to open the tip of the hollow point, then the cone punch to shape the nose. Not very practical, but it may be possible to do this with one punch. Would be complex to make and might be too much force on the projectile, but it might work. I'm going to make a few of these the hard way to begin with and test them in wet pack before I spend any more time on another version of the punch. The theory of the skinny nose section allowing rapid expansion makes sense to me, so it will be interesting to see if that plays out.