no gas checks?

[jthomastreadwell]

hi .was just looking at E Arthur Brown website for .44 mag encore bbl with brake .then I looked a little more and it says I cant shoot cast boolits with gas checks through their brake? ever here of such? does anybody here shoot gas checks through their brake? .......thanks

[buck1]

I never have but ,I hear it leads them up fairly bad. But I cant say for sure....FWIW.....Buck

[454PB]

I shoot gas checked boolits through my Taurus RB with ported barrel and have never had a problem. Maybe a muzzle brake and a ported barrel are different?

[leftiye]

You could solve this if it happened by relieving the muzzle brake section of the barrel about .020" (moving the crown rearward of the brake). Cast and gas checks in a braked barrel should only be a problem if the rifling is still there and the bore (including ports) touches the boolit while traveling through the brake. This will reduce the effectiveness of the brake a little too. But it should shoot straight(er).