Gas Checks

[rodmkr]

Hoe many here make their own gas checks?
How many do you keep on hand at any one time?
Have been making my own for many years using freechecs.
They work great but do not have them in all of the calibers I shoot.
Bought several of the Pat Marlin check makers for the odball calibers.
Sure is different using the free checs and the Pat Marlin type tools.
Been making a lot of checks during the shut down so figure I have a
lifetime supply now.
rodmkr

 

[Spindrift]

So far, I make regular checks for 6,5, .30cal and 44cal. PB checks for 30-cal. I have the Pat Marlin check makers, they work well for me.

I have a Lyman Crusher press that is otherwise unoccupied. Every once in a while, I stop by the press for a few minutes and make 50 checks, or something like that. Making a few at a time is kind of recreational. Making hundreds in one session, is too much like work.

 

[RBHarter]

I ran up against the same economics for check tools as I did for swage tools . I have 17 cal . How many really hot 45-70-500s do I expect to shoot , just one pistol mould that's checked and how many 45-230s will I run that hard ? So 16 ......27,28,30 and 32 but I already have a PB in the 32 Rem and 30-30 that outrun jacketed so that takes my list down to 22,25,26,27,28 and 35 cal . I don't expect to run a ton of 35 s really hard I have the 358 Win and pistols that don't need checks . I don't see me shooting 1000 gas checks through the 264 WM so the 2000 on hand should hold me . I ended up with 5000 7mm checks at some point and 3000 in 25. I guess I should get a tool for 22 and 27 cal they would probably pay off in the long game . Fact is at this point I'm loading way more than I shoot and for most of my shooting checks just aren't needed .

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I use Sage unless I find some used...

 

[Brad]

I made a check maker. Made a few to see if it works. It does. Never used it again.

Paul and I often discussed this. He is retired, I am still working. He traded time for money. I trade money for time.

 

[JonB]

I had several, including some PatMarlins plainbase style, but sold them as I decided I didn't like making GCs.

I did save these two:
22 cal Freechex III
and a Percussion cup forming tool by MannyCA.
...you know, in case the SHTF...

 

[Ian]

Ever since the summer I burned up 3 boxes of .30 caliber Hornady checks I tend to keep plenty in stock. Like Brad, I trade money for time. If I'm going to spend the money, might as well have the best. When pushing cast bullets hard, Hornady has done the best for me.

 

[Spindrift]

Making my own checks really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, from a money/time perspective. But I do it anyway, since I like making stuff. It’s just part of the hobby, for me. Give it a few more years, I might take another view.

In Norwegian we have the word «skaperglede». This reflects the state of satisfaction or contentedness you can reach, when making or creating something. Is there such a word in English?

 

[CZ93X62]

I mess up the trade of money for time by finishing the forming of commersh checks (Hornady mostly, some Gator, a few Sage). The checks are just fine, it's the shanks on Lyman castings that don't get along with Hornady crimp-on checks. Those check flaring tools sold by NOE are a great thing indeed--esp. with 30 and 35 caliber Lyman castings.

Only 1 of the several moulds I have bought recently use gas checks. Counting the Lee "consumables", I have 80+ moulds on hand. It is an illness, but a harmless one.

 

[Winelover]

Have enough to do..............so I buy from Sage's / Gator's. Always copper, unless I need small shank gas checks, that only come in aluminum. Just ain't enough savings to buy the aluminum checks by the thousands.

I keep 3-5K of each of the sizes, I use on hand. Thirty caliber, forty-four and thirty five.

 

[Rick]

I mess up the trade of money for time by finishing the forming of commersh checks (Hornady mostly, some Gator, a few Sage). The checks are just fine, it's the shanks on Lyman castings that don't get along with Hornady crimp-on checks. Those check flaring tools sold by NOE are a great thing indeed--esp. with 30 and 35 caliber Lyman castings.

Only 1 of the several moulds I have bought recently use gas checks. Counting the Lee "consumables", I have 80+ moulds on hand. It is an illness, but a harmless one.

I've about 75 molds and by far the worst of all is the SAECO molds. Trying to get a check on a SAECO mold is an exercise in futility. That's what got me making check sizers and sizing all checks about 40 years ago.

 

[RBHarter]

Making my own checks really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, from a money/time perspective. But I do it anyway, since I like making stuff. It’s just part of the hobby, for me. Give it a few more years, I might take another view.

In Norwegian we have the word «skaperglede». This reflects the state of satisfaction or contentedness you can reach, when making or creating something. Is there such a word in English?

Zen I think . Like many words in American English it's borrowed from someone else .
We tend to describe it as a rush or deep satisfaction with having made something all our own and having it perform well .

Zen I guess is more being in a place , space , moment of perfect feel and flow .

I think we need skaperglede . Now to pronounce it correctly ......

 

[fiver]

short A, last E as an A is probably close enough.

I think content or contentment is the word that's closest.
it's like a peace or inner calm mixed with joy, relief, and a sense of closure.[or release of nervous energy]
like when you finally shoot a deer or a 10-X score with a projectile and ammo you completely created yourself.
the build up of care, effort, time and thought is culminated in that one moment of proof.

 

[Brad]

I too enjoy being as self sufficient as possible. I just keep in mind the payoff. I would rather spend my time at the lathe than sitting there making checks.
Might be my dislike for tasks I consider tedious. Same reason i hate trimming brass.

 

[358156 hp]

Brad needs a Giraud trimmer. I have a Super Gracey which accomplishes the same results at similar speeds, but if I bought a new high-speed trimmer, it would be a Giraud. Bonus points for doing it as fast as the guy does in the video.

 

[Rally]

I make my .30 cals (to include .32-20) and buy .45 for my .45-70. Those are the only sizes I use. Never saw the need to push a pistol bullet that hard to need one.

358156HP,
I love my Giraud. A bucket of brass is no big deal to get trimmed. I'm not as fast as the video because I clean primer pockets at the same time.