Using the Star Today

[LAH]

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.


When using gas checks be sure the sprue cutter made a clean cut.


Place the check on the bullet.


I size these nose first so place the bullet in die.


I call this properly seated.


Finished several hundred.


Nice bullet, nice meplat.

[alfloyd]

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]

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]

Pretty bullets. You should do this for a living

[LAH]

pretty bullets. You should do this for a living

hee hee

[dragonrider]

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]

Every body knows ya can't make a livein' castin' bullets. Dennis

[cheese1566]

Very nice!
What are you usinf for lube? Sure looks pretty!

[LAH]

Very nice!
What are you usinf for lube? Sure looks pretty!

Those are lubed with Ballisti-Cast.

[grubbylabs]

Yes very nice looking indeed.

[deltaenterprizes]

Thanks for sharing, I would have never tried it that way.

[LAH]

Thanks for sharing, I would have never tried it that way.

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