Pat marlin over on cast boolits sells both regular gas check makers and plain base gas check makers. Very time consuming.
Exactly.Naw, you just have to get into a rhythm and have at it
Back in the day when Lyman was the only gas check maker in town (before any such thing as a "crimp-on" gas check), it was considered alright and even correct for gas checks to fall from the bullets as they left the barrel. The conventional wisdom then was, "...they have done their job." In those days, I wondered if the fact that some fell off and some did not (found spent bullets with checks still on), could change the flight characteristics and therefore the impact point between those with and those without. Then Hornaday made that a moot point with their crimp-on checks.I tried one of Pat Marlins plain base gas check makers in 35 cal. They would not stay on the bullet. They seemed tight when I loaded them, but I would find them on the ground right in front of where I was shooting a few feet from the end of my barrel. No telling if they were still on the bullet as it exited the barrel, or if they were flying out after the bullet.