Gas Check Bullets WITHOUT The Gas Check?

[Southern Shooter]

Can you shoot a bullet cast from a gas check mould WITHOUT using a gas check?

Thanks

[44man]

Can you shoot a bullet cast from a gas check mould WITHOUT using a gas check?

Thanks
Sometimes, many times. You need to shoot them side by side to see what your boolit does. At times it works fine and other boolits fail.

[geargnasher]

Read the sticky, draw your own conclusions.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=48857

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[Bret4207]

Theres a whole section on this under GAS CHECKS just scroll down the main page.

[Jack Stanley]

I do so quite a bit with my 1903 and A3 . I don't drive them as fast as I expect to drive a gas checked bullet and for the most part I've been using very soft lead . How slow doesn't really matter to me as long as I can make the bullet hit right where the battle sights of the 1903 are looking at short range . I think the lead has been in the eight to ten brinell range .

I've also been fooling with twenty-two cast bullets without checks at low velocity in the two two three Remington . It seems to be working there too .

Jack

[Corbi]

Seems to me a gas checked boolit without the check would be shaped like a 22rf bulet. They seem to shoot okay.

Corbi

[white eagle]

I shot some out of my 43 mag and they did poorly
accuracy was average but leading was bad and came quickly 6-7 rounds

[Larry Gibson]

Of course you can shoot Gc'd designed bullets without the GCs. The question is; with what kind of accuracy at what velocity and to their potential?

Larry Gibson

[Ole]

I have shot the RD 265's without GC's in my CA 44 special but the load was pretty low (pressure and velocity).

The one time I tried to shoot those bullets w/o gas checks in my 44 Mag with full loads I got leading.

[lwknight]

My 358158 SWCs do better without the checks with light loads.

[bobthenailer]

i have done this in several different calibers & guns with excellent results with velocties up tp 1,100 fps or so