Proper Way? : Installing Gas Checks

[fiver]

I think I mentioned how I seat them on the stars earlier.
just a simple piece of flat steel will press them in place using the lubesizer then they get size/lubed.

 

[pokute]

I balance the gas check on my nose, throw the bullet in the air, and catch it just when it's just right. Then a quick chaw with the two molars that line up, the ones on the left side, let the dog give it a lick, and it's done. I tried to take a picture, but it come out all blurred like:

 

[Brad]

Why are you choking Kermit?

 

[KeithB]

I've heard of choking the chicken.

 

[Brad]

He's from California, must be a west coast adaptation?

 

[gman]

I've heard of choking the chicken.

Good thing I wasn’t sipping coffee when I read this.

 

[pokute]

Not many chickens here, however, quite close is:

 

[waco]

must be a west coast adaptation?

Don't go lumping all of the left coast in with Komifornia.

 

[fiver]

they charge extra for chickens out there.
frogs however are a bit scarce on the south end.

 

[Brad]

Don't go lumping all of the left coast in with Komifornia.

Hey, if the frog fits.....

 

[waco]

Up and down the I-5 corridor is blue. I'll give you that. The whole rest of the damn state is red though.

 

[RicinYakima]

Do you have a gang problem in CA? Oh my.

 

[freebullet]

It's pretty clear cabin fever is taking it's toll on numerous members.

 

[fiver]

this is the second funniest thread tonight.

 

[waco]

Second only to choking out Kermit the frog

 

[fiver]

the reloading stand thread got going.

 

[Eutectic]

I am in the minority of those who anneal their gas checks. It takes any "springback" out of them, and if I do my part the checks almost appear to have been cast into place, you can even see a shadow of the sprue cut.

Count me on your team 358156 hp....... Almost always I used gaschecks fully annealed. Like all you say plus a flat base. Once in a while I'll use .22, .25, an especially .35 checks without annealing as they are pretty thin material compared to most other bigger sizes.

I almost always size with push through type sizers nose first. Nose first because I get better accuracy....Many sizers are made by me with a longer tapered section in them. I have an assortment of expanders to fit gascheck snug to my particular bullet. I always size gaschecked bullets with back pressure (nose pressure) applied. I lightly 'bump' the check as I feel the contact before pushing through. My checks are on as flat as the bullet's base is as 358156 hp states above with shadows of anything on base like sprue area although I will tolerate very little of that either! and I've been known to 'skim' bases in the lathe if they're not!

Now if we could just get Hornady to put an even skirt height on their high $$$ checks I'd be happy!

Pete