Thread: 22lr Resizing/Hollow Pointing Tool

Hey Gents, sorry for the lack of contact, I have been sick on and off for the last few months and have achieved very little in that time. I'm about 50% of the way through the parts for these dies and am back working on them now. Would estimate a delivery time of mid March now unfortunately, if this doesn't work for anyone, please let me know and I can cancel your order and refund your deposit.

I need to know sizing collar requirements and punch stem requirements as I will be starting on these soon.

For sizing, I have been running 0.225 on everything and have found this to work well except for short throat match chambered semi-automatics, where the bolt sometimes will not chamber the round completely and will then have a light firing pin strike and failure to fire. Dropping to 0.2245 solved this, reaming the throat of the barrel a little also solved this. 0.225 has worked well on all bolt guns I have tried.

Punch design. I can do more or less whatever you want, but post #64 shows the hollow point I have settled on as being the best performer and most reliable to form. I have been calling this HP#4 for no other reason than it's the 4th iteration I tried, the small flair it forms at the start of the HP cavity seems to be key to reliability.
I can do a different HP stem at each end, or one HP and a flat nose, or EPS tip, or multiple punches. I can do more punches in the future if you want to try something else. If you have a specific idea for a punch, let me know and I'll try make it for you.

Let me know here or via PM what you would like and I will confirm with you. If people with orders don't see this post, I will reach out via PM, but it's a lot less time doing it here.

ST

Thanks for that. I'll stay with your 0.225 and HP#4 recommendations.

Same 0.225 and HP#4 recommendations.