Duke are you sure you have the FreeChex IV's as in Dragonheart's video. I understand that they never got beyond custom and prototype phases. Production costs were to be just too high for most...
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Forum: Gas Checks
Duke are you sure you have the FreeChex IV's as in Dragonheart's video. I understand that they never got beyond custom and prototype phases. Production costs were to be just too high for most...
Forum: Gas Checks
Insurance is $41.91 if and only if registered. None otherwise. Not available otherwise on foreign mailings.
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You did say not 100 percent were bad. Looking at the metal strips you do see some holes have more closure than others which are gapping. Your cute little stop setup could be lifting the tape away...
Forum: Gas Checks
For parcels destine to points outside the USA the Insurance is only available on USPS REGISTERED Express mailings, and then there's the wait time at the PO to boot filling out in triplicate forms....
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Saw 9.3 mm/.375 FreeChex III's on Broker a while back.
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My 500 FreeChex III works nicely in a HF arbor press 1/2ton, right arm stronger now. That was a design goal from speaking with Charley some years ago. Very nice 3D plans of his tools are published...
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I'd bet they are not NOE quality like molds. -tj
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Look for discount coupons in the Rifleman- 20% at HF. -tj
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Something else is going on! ebays lists Hornady checks. LEE's pictures of bullets, a no no. Molds etc. H&I sets. Something is fishy and, or gotten to them. Amazon shows Vulcan etc. tj
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Amazon has everything,,,,or just about it will be the death of eBay
.....tj
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But it was Rocket Science before Ed Smith brought the tool and copied it for the rest of us!!!!!
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Found this on the sister blog. Seems a real effort to test P_C boolits.
I am really not happy with a recent three day test of coated high velocity bullets which when cast were as perfect as can...
Forum: Gas Checks
357's and 50's have not been listed for sometime now. On GB that is! -tj
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A Star die which did the same with a different caliber (257). The throat had to be beveled and polished a bit more so as to allow the check to enter the sizer die which is a nose first...
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Hmm...are the checks fitting on the base okay before you are sizing? It the tool new or used? - tj
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Sounds like your anticipating issues ahead of getting your freechex tool. -tj
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Sage quit, www.thegascheckstore.com otherwise best do a WTB from shooters some have the tool here.--tj
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It is not hijacked as often is seen here, it obviously just a different form of a gas check and it appears to work nicely! -tj
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Forest R right on point. Excellent ideas and tests and results. Very informative! -tj
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PeeWee what kind of maintenance does this setup of yours need? -tj
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Why waste your time with the flimsy coke can metal. I read the powder coating does everything you want in ending lead fouling by it self. -tj
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
It's the copper content that makes the most difference. It seems no amount of annealing WIN brass can save the cases from work hardening and splitting . Norma brass is the answer if the brass is...
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BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
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