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

[3006guns]

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.

[Ben]

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 ! !

Ben

[3006guns]

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.

[Ben]

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

Ben

[Sonnypie]

You don't say what they are for (I assume 30-06).
But here is a page at Midway (http://www.midwayusa.com/find?userSearchQuery=Gas+Checks) 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. [smilie=1:

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. :veryconfu

[lead chucker]

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.

[Stephen Cohen]

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

[Sonnypie]

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

(That's a joke, mate.) :drinks:

[sirgknight]

This may or may not be a good source for checks:

http://www.tntreloading.com/productCat46660.ctlg

[lead chucker]

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.

[Certaindeaf]

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..

[JeffinNZ]

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

(That's a joke, mate.) :drinks:

Why do you think the Ozzies and Kiwis have embraced Freechex so much?

Pokitah, pokitah, pokitah.

[MGySgt]

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.

[DLCTEX]

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.

[fcvan]

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

[shotman]

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

[shotman]

well here you go feebay 220978905023

[Longwood]

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".

EVERY day is Saturday.

:drinks:[smilie=s:[smilie=w::Fire:[smilie=w::castmine::Fire:

[Chamfered]

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.

[plmitch]

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.

[lead chucker]

It's fun making checks. Even funner shooting them. I love this stuff.

[Reg]

Fleabay---- great place to sell--- stupid place to buy !!!

[smilie=w:

[bosterr]

A friend of mine is looking for crimp on checks for the .41 Magnum. He says .416 checks are too big. Any ideas?

[Longwood]

Fleabay---- great place to sell--- stupid place to buy !!!

[smilie=w:

I sure am glad some people don't shop there.
152 items bought to date.
I doubt I would ever sell there.
Too many greedy fingers in the pie.

[Pigslayer]

A friend of mine is looking for crimp on checks for the .41 Magnum. He says .416 checks are too big. Any ideas?
Give a shout to sagebrush7(this site). He'll fix you up pronto.

[Pigslayer]

Fleabay---- great place to sell--- stupid place to buy !!!

[smilie=w:

Now, now. I've bought a lot of stuff there & have gotten a lot of good deals. But I don't get caught up in a bidding war. Just have to know what an item is worth.

[DLCTEX]

I bid on lots of stuff on Ebay, but haven't bought much in a couple years. I have found some items cheaper there than anywhere else, usually due to shipping cost and no minimum order fee. I haven't bought any gas checks there in a while though. Even the old Lyman slip ons are crazy high.

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

+1 on the gator checks from Blammer
21 bucks/1000 for .30 cal,

[Sonnypie]

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.

Not if you are intelligent about it.
Cast metal art forms, and decorative end caps are not the same as
Bullets and gas checks for shooting.
I've sent gifts to a couple of friends Internationally, and in Alaska.
It's all in the wording. ;-)

[Blammer]

I have 375's on hand and should have 50,000 30 cal arriveing soon. :)

shipping to down under is $19 for up to 4 pounds. :)

[shotman]

now you down deep guys
that is WAY better than an $80 buck tool and looking for what MAY work
gators are without a doubt the best and if you need something special its not a set up to make a tool that you only use about every 3 years .

[tjones]

Shotgun, that's some good thinking.