cost to de gas check mould

[mwohlenhaus]

has anyone had this done, I am looking to shoot low velocity 7.62x54 bullets, and the only lee moulds available are for gc. I see saeco has some without gc for sale but they are mucho dinero, plus the handles to boot.

[jhalcott]

have you tried them un checked? This CAN work ,depending on the velocity.

[Ben]

has anyone had this done, I am looking to shoot low velocity 7.62x54 bullets, and the only lee moulds available are for gc. I see saeco has some without gc for sale but they are mucho dinero, plus the handles to boot.

I didn't pay anyone to do it, I did it myself :

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=22102

Here are the results from a 200 gr. Lee .30 cal. mold that I removed the g/c on.

7.0 grs. Bullseye with the plain base 200 gr. RN bullet.

5 Shots at 50 yards from a 308 Win., with metallic sights :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/PICT0002.jpg

[docone31]

Ben, those look like good paper patch candidates. I like.
sized .308 and wrapped, might be sweet shooters.
I easily use the lowest charge on the Lee Sheet with my dies. Over that, and accuracy suffers. I use 4895.
You did a good job drilling out, they look square.
Nice organized box of castings. You have done this before.

[Ben]

I get real good results with my plain based bullets. Of course I keep the speed down , if you push them too fast it is all a waste of good alloy, time, and propellant.

Ben

[runfiverun]

about 1400 with g/c boolits w/o g/c's is reasonable.
p.b. boolits run to 16-1700 easily enough

[Linstrum]

I have occasionally run boolits without the gas checks crimped on them no problem, as has already been mentioned just keep the velocity down, which is what you want anyway.

I have also run gas check boolits backwards for a rifle wad cutter load no problem.


rl372

[EMC45]

I did the same thing with a sharp pen knife and a Dremmel. It was a Lee mold so it was easy to "carve" away the block. It was a 2 cav, so I left one with a check. They come out nice. I had to do a lot of polishing and I would cast a few then polish, cast a few then polish. It did turn out though. It can be done. Ben's look really nice!!!! This is a 160 gr. Lee .309 mold. Shoots great out of my FR8! The dingy look is the Alox BTW. http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm243/Evansguns/102_1712.jpghttp://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm243/Evansguns/102_1710.jpg