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LAH
12-07-2010, 04:01 PM
The question comes up now & then: Can you seat gas checks with a Star Sizer/Luber? Doe season is in here but it’s snowing & cold so I stayed in today & sized a few bullets which happened to use gas checks. Please excuse the messy bench but here’s how I lay them out.
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Creekerpics/Loading%20Room%20101/Bullets/DC4%204-320-FNGC/Picture032.jpg

When using gas checks be sure the sprue cutter made a clean cut.
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Creekerpics/Loading%20Room%20101/Bullets/DC4%204-320-FNGC/Picture033.jpg

Place the check on the bullet.
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Creekerpics/Loading%20Room%20101/Bullets/DC4%204-320-FNGC/Picture034.jpg

I size these nose first so place the bullet in die.
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Creekerpics/Loading%20Room%20101/Bullets/DC4%204-320-FNGC/Picture037.jpg

I call this properly seated.
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Creekerpics/Loading%20Room%20101/Bullets/DC4%204-320-FNGC/Picture038.jpg

Finished several hundred.
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Creekerpics/Loading%20Room%20101/Bullets/DC4%204-320-FNGC/Picture042.jpg

Nice bullet, nice meplat.
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Creekerpics/Loading%20Room%20101/Bullets/DC4%204-320-FNGC/Picture043.jpg
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Creekerpics/Loading%20Room%20101/Bullets/DC4%204-320-FNGC/Picture044.jpg

alfloyd
12-07-2010, 04:10 PM
So do you need a punch the size of the boolit to keep the check from cupping?

I size mine nose up to get the check to crimp.

alfloyd

LAH
12-07-2010, 04:21 PM
So do you need a punch the size of the boolit to keep the check from cupping?

alfloyd

No but it needs to be within reason size wise.

This is the same punch I use to seat 357 checks which I also size nose first. I have special punch for the 45-70 bullet.................Creeker

bhn22
12-07-2010, 08:58 PM
Pretty bullets. You should do this for a living :)

LAH
12-07-2010, 09:15 PM
pretty bullets. You should do this for a living :)

hee hee

dragonrider
12-07-2010, 09:58 PM
Using a proper sized punch is important to seating gas check in a Star. The punches I use are .010" smaller than the boolit. Just as LAH has shown it works very well.

Dennis Eugene
12-07-2010, 11:06 PM
Every body knows ya can't make a livein' castin' bullets. Dennis

cheese1566
12-07-2010, 11:37 PM
Very nice!
What are you usinf for lube? Sure looks pretty!

LAH
12-08-2010, 10:04 AM
Very nice!
What are you usinf for lube? Sure looks pretty!

Those are lubed with Ballisti-Cast.

grubbylabs
12-08-2010, 11:45 AM
Yes very nice looking indeed.

deltaenterprizes
12-09-2010, 05:07 AM
Thanks for sharing, I would have never tried it that way.

LAH
12-09-2010, 11:37 AM
Thanks for sharing, I would have never tried it that way.

Care to share your way?............Creeker