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trooperdan
11-01-2005, 09:39 AM
Reading a thread about making your own #11 caps in Front Stuffers caused a long dormant brain cell to tick to life and resulted in a memory.. or a day-dream. Didn't Forster or someone once make a device to punch gas checks out of aluminum cans? The way the price of checks have gone it might be an idea whose time has come!
Bodydoc447
11-01-2005, 09:50 AM
I have heard rumours that Paco Kelly is trying to revive the Freechec tool over on the Leverguns list. I don't know the status of that project. I hope it is true, as I simply cannot find the old Lyman .41 caliber gas checks without paying a truly obscene amount of $. And the Hornady 416s simply do not fit without annealing and opening.
Doc
Maven
11-01-2005, 10:09 AM
The Hanned Line (Dennis Hastert?) offered such a product prior to going bankrupt. The price, however, was ~$140 if I recall correctly (Maybe that's why they went belly up.) for a precision-made (machined) tool. Unfortunately, you'd have to use beau coup GC's before you'd break even and that doesn't factor in the time spent producing them.
II simply cannot find the old Lyman .41 caliber gas checks without paying a truly obscene amount of $. And the Hornady 416s simply do not fit without annealing and opening.
Doc
Have you tried .44 checks? I had 10 or so hornady 44 checks and did a small run. Seemed like I had passable accuracy. I am needing to do some more spearmenting, but ran out of lube, time and money. Will get back to it some time I hope.
Bodydoc447
11-01-2005, 12:57 PM
Sounds like it is worth a try at least. I have a few 44 GCs somewhere. Thanks for the idea.
Doc
versifier
11-01-2005, 01:09 PM
Check out the thread under Casting Equipment. I asked about that last week & got all kinds of good info. :coffeecom
Old Jim
11-04-2005, 04:07 PM
Mountain Molds have 41 cal gas checks, 2 diameters.
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