Gas check on bevel base bullet

[ollogger]

last summer i bought a bunch of bevel base bullets for my 357s real cheap, they are hard as a rock & left alot of lead in the barrel, that was with 5 gr. of titegroup my favorite plinking load
i always have leaded bore with hard lead, so i was going to toss them in the lead pot & redo them
had a idea of putting on a g.c. so i tried it, well looks good to me, so i loaded up 50 of them with the same load & shot them up with 2 guns, a sp101 & an old 3 screw, the 3 screw with out the gc
would tumble the bullets, with the g.c. shot as well as i can most of the time, the sp 101 im proved
a good amount, so any body else try this? or have trouble with B.B. bullets? or hard lead with plinker loads? have to load some more & try them in the Henry


ollogger

[JimT]

I used to use the Freechec ... home-made gaschecks for plain base bullets .. on cast bullets that didn't have a good grease groove and would lead easily. It stopped the leading. You may have read to piece I have on the Leverguns site ...

https://leverguns.com/articles/taylor/freechec.htm

[ollogger]

Good read Jim & thanks! i know ive seen it be fore but i could have seen it a week ago
and it would be like ive never seen it at all




Brad

[blackhawk44]

I did the same thing with some Magma 405s bought for 45-70. I did use Hornady crimp on checks that I sat on the bench then tapped on the nose with a rubber hammer then ran back through the sizer to crimp. Checked with a fingernail to pull off but they held. It appeared to give them some purchase. When loaded over a moderate load of Varget in my Browning 1886 (about 1500fps) groups at 50yds were cut in half.for the afternoon. Kept checking the barrel but no problems found. Hope to try at 100yds when I get past some family illness.
Read an article many years ago (can't remember where) about seating a SNUG fitting gascheck inverted into the case mouth and letting the bullet finish seating the check to avoid airspace. Somewhat like an unattached hollow base. Have never tried it but it sounds plausible. TRY AT YOUR OWN RSK.

[AJMD429]

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It does seem like the pressure of firing would keep the gas check from ‘falling off’ - at least until barrel exit…! At worst, a ‘sabot’ of brass.

[marlinman93]

Have you dug up any of the bevel base gas checked bullets after firing to see if the GC stayed on them?

[ollogger]

marlin man no i was shooting into a big block of wood, put up a big target & had no
extra holes in it, 18 rounds were with in 6 yards, so im sure they stayed on that far
around here my gravel & saw dust piles are full of lead, be hard to sniff them out




ollogger

[blackhawk44]

Sorry, no. The club made it clear that our frontend loader was for repairing the berms and range, not digging in them. Besides, only officers have the keys.