Freechex Gas Check Making System Tutorial

[bombdoc42]

This is not right... you must not use aluminium for gs checks..

If you use aluminium gas checks, you will end up with excessive chamber wear. Aluminium oxide is way to abrasive.. Gas checks are made from copper for a good reason! Have you ever seen aluminium used for jackets?

[gigerchild]

30 cal Gas checks are $60 per 1000 in Australia and you have to order them in takes like a month, gun shops don't stock them

[gaintwist32]

Great video on a subject I am curious about.You mention that the dies are tool steel,do you know if the steel is hardened? Thanks.

[cjb4187]

Do you have to use the gas check on cast pistol bullets like 9mm and 45 ?

If you do, Do you have to lube them too?

Sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm new to reloading and casting.

I'm going to start with 9mm with the lee loader.

Any suggestion would be helpful.

thanks for all the great vid.

[romansten9]

@cjb4187 Someone else might give you a better answer, but gas checks are used to seal the bore and primarily needed when higher pressures/velocities are created. (typically happens in rifles more than handguns) Wikipedia says: The high pressures allow propellant gas to escape past the bullet, causing gas cutting, which increases lead deposits in the barrel and unbalances the bullet." I cast and load 9mm Luger and have never used gas checks. Some people use them for 9mm rifle loads however.

[cjb4187]

Do you have to use the gas check on cast pistol bullets like 9mm and 45 ?

Sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm new to reloading and casting.

I'm going to start with 9mm with the lee loader.

Any suggestion would be helpful.

thanks for all the great vid.

[fireline6]

i wonder what happens if you pur a soda can on a lee lube & size die, may work the same.

Too expensive for a die.

[fireline6]

i wonder what happens if you pur a soda can on a lee lube & size die, may work the same.

[bigdaddy1325]

I just ordered gas checks from midway, No problem at all! I dont have the time to mess with this system and still load and shoot. But to each his own.

[Iraqveteran8888]

It's not for everybody.

On a rainy boring day, I can sit there and punch out about 1000 in an hour and a half and be set for probably 2 month or so.

Actually, I just got new dies so I'm sure I'll be going through a butt load, but anyways.

I still use standard gas checks too, with that being said.

[johncub7172]

learn more every day, thanks for the video!

[67mustangreg]

at 0:07 seconds I had to laugh...mmmk? just like southpark :)

[Iraqveteran8888]

MMMMMMM Kay Mr. Hat.....lol

[USNERDOC]

Great video . . . always something to learn. Now I know what a gas check is and how it is used. Thanks!

[Iraqveteran8888]

Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it.

[tripwire1000]

DARN GOOD VID KEEP IT UP MAN I ENJOY

[Iraqveteran8888]

Sure thing. Thanks for the support.

[daywalker627]

Very nice Eric. Congrats. Definatly worth the price to have an unlimited amount of checks!!

[Iraqveteran8888]

Thanks Tommy. Take Care

[stevestreet01]

Glad to see u got you FC II system. I like the box the Chad made. I might have to borrow his idea!!! Great video guys!!!!!

[Iraqveteran8888]

Thanks Steve.

[Geochron]

How do you attack a gas check to a cast bullet?

[Iraqveteran8888]

You can use a Lyman Luberisizer or use the Lee Bullet Sizing Dies.

Ammosmith has a few good videos on the Lyman Lubrisizer.

Unfortunately, I do not own one.

I have been using the Lee Sizer Dies to good effect.

[ECTBWHO]

: )

[vlad4video]

Looks like a nice system, where can you get one of these?

[Iraqveteran8888]

I will get in contact with the inventor, and get some information to post.

Sorry for not doing that initially.

[desteve811]

Someone should invent a gas check maker that you install on a single stage press and with one pull of the handle, yeilds one complete gas check. Too time consuming for me but a good invention.

[Iraqveteran8888]

Working on it already....lol

[bradsterfordawin]

so what exactly are these used for im just getting started into reloading and im lost on the subject

[Iraqveteran8888]

They are used in cast bullets to prevent leading.

Leading happens when the gases exerted on the back of a cast bullet and bearing surface of the bullet are too great for the hardness of the bullet to contain.

The gas cuts around the base and bearing surface of the bullet and etches little bits of lead to the bore of yor firearm.

Many falsely think leading is caused from "melting" the base of the bullet but this isn't true.

A gas check serves to help make a seal in the bore to prevent lead

[Mrcaffinebean]

So better range and accuracy?

[Iraqveteran8888]

Not better range per se.

Just a good alternative to buying gas checks.

They have their pros and cons, but across the board, I like them a lot.

I am cheap....lol

[bradsterfordawin]

thanks now i understand this and how useful it is