Ian
Notorious member
I've yet to shoot a cast bullet that was designed for a gas check and not put a gas check on it that shot well.
Ben
"well" is relative. Minute of soda can at 100 yards is plenty good for soda cans at 100 yards. Five holes touching versus one hole at 50 yards is another matter. checkless bullets never shot all that well for me, either, however.....
If you powder coat, the playing field is very much leveled....in fact I tend to have BETTER groups from GC bullets sans checks than from flat based bullets because of base edge flashing from the PC and sizing causing irregularities which are not present on the bottom edge of the base driving band when powder coating and standing bullets on their bases. So there's that.