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    Commercial check prices......??!!

    Just a rant I suppose, but I was poking around on Ebay a few minutes ago and found Lyman checks offered for $49-$54/1000...and the guy seemed proud of it!

    Am I that far out of touch with retail prices?? If so, one of Pat Marlin's check makers may be in my future.

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    If they are new Lyman checks, they are really Hornady g/cs that have been repackaged. Lyman doesn't make their own gas checks. Of course they have to add their profit into it also. Very few people will play that game at those prices. You'd like a Pat Marlin g/c maker. I like mine ! !

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    Maybe the repackaging costs more than we earthly mortals can understand....but Jeez!

    I'm gonna start looking into paper patching pretty quick here too.

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    I know nothing about paper patching, but I've also thought that I'd like to learn.

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    You don't say what they are for (I assume 30-06).
    But here is a page at Midway with gas check prices, and yeah, they are not cheap.

    That's why I chose to get the stuff to make my own.
    I'm going: Pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah, pokitah....
    When making gas checks.
    Last run netted well over 1000. I ran out of boolits to put them on.

    I decided when getting into casting again that I wanted to be able to make my own boolits, and that means making my gas checks, too. And loobing.

    It's a commitment.
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    I am tired of paying high dollar for hornady checks i ordered a pat marlin ck mkr have no idea when I will get it but I hear it's worth the Wait. I just hope I don't run out before I get it. there is something rewarding about making everything from scratch and then shooting a deer with it. You could always buy aluminum checks from guys here. they are cheaper than Lyman or hornady.
    Dont pee down my back and tell me its raining.

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    $84.00 a thousand for 375 checks In Australia. and $65.00 for 30 cal. that was last week, who knows this week.

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    Ouch!
    That sounds like a real kick in the down under, Stephen....

    (That's a joke, mate.)
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    This may or may not be a good source for checks:

    http://www.tntreloading.com/productCat46660.ctlg
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    Can't wait to get my check maker. We are so snow bound here in Alaska cant even go shooting. Making gc would give me some thing else to do beside shovel snow.
    Dont pee down my back and tell me its raining.

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    Thought I'd kick this back up. Running low on .30 and need to resupply soon. Should I make my own?
    I know.. I need to do research..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sonnypie View Post
    Ouch!
    That sounds like a real kick in the down under, Stephen....

    (That's a joke, mate.)
    Why do you think the Ozzies and Kiwis have embraced Freechex so much?

    Pokitah, pokitah, pokitah.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sirgknight View Post
    This may or may not be a good source for checks:

    http://www.tntreloading.com/productCat46660.ctlg
    TNT has always had decent prices. They go to the gun shows and you can order something from them and they will bring it to the gun show - save the cost of shipping!

    Use to be a larger crew at the gun shows, but it is down to Tony and his wife.
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    Check prices (pun intended) with our own Blammer for Gator Checks. Better prices for quality snap on checks. Member tested and approved. Shipping to down under will drive the price up and with the gov. restrictions on exporting anything gun related, hard to get done.

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    I have .22, .30, 35PB, and .45PB on order from Pat. Eventually I need to order .41 and .50PB as well. I'm looking forward to making and shooting a lot more checked boolits. The last time I bought GCs was for .22 so they weren't too bad but man alive the bigger ones are spendy. It won't take long to recover the cost of Pat's dies at the current rate of things. Frank

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    wow at $20 to $30 a thousand you all have way too much spare time to make them, I hope I dont get old and nuts , and gators dont fall off , and dont have to look for scrap.
    But some will drive 300 miles for a bucket of WW and spend the time to melt and could buy them ready to cast with for 1/4 that

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    well here you go feebay 220978905023

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    Quote Originally Posted by shotman View Post
    wow at $20 to $30 a thousand you all have way too much spare time to make them, I hope I dont get old and nuts , and gators dont fall off , and dont have to look for scrap.
    But some will drive 300 miles for a bucket of WW and spend the time to melt and could buy them ready to cast with for 1/4 that
    Many of us are retired and need cheap things to do to keep us from going "Nuts".

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    I hadn't priced new ones in a while, ouch. I'd been running on a pile I bought at an estate auction years ago. I don't mind paying for components, but at a nickle apiece I think it will be time to buy one of Pat Marlin's check makers.

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    Commercial check prices are just too much for me. I don’t have a check maker so I just trade aluminum sheet stock for finished checks with members here, works out great.
    Life's hard, even harder if your stupid.

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