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what size gas check for cast 6.5 mm bullets?

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flintnapr	what size gas check for cast 6.5 mm bullets?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 603 (09/30/09 9:51 PM) Veteran Member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None what size gas check should I use for 6.5 x 55 bullets? do they need to be specially "6.5 mm", or could I use regular 25 caliber gas checks? thanks
jeeper1		#1	[-]
Posts: 5656 (09/30/09 11:07 PM) MODERATOR Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Has to be 6.5mm.
flintnapr	thanks	#2	[-]
Posts: 604 (10/01/09 2:17 PM) Veteran Member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	thanks for answer, jeeper, here's another question: what velocity do you think the gas checks enable a cast lead bullet to be pushed to? (without a lot of leading-up the bore) I'd be using a hard lead alloy, wheel weights with a little linotype added.
jeeper1		#3	[-]
Posts: 5657 (10/02/09 5:35 AM) MODERATOR Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Many years ago I was told that a plain cast bullet would lead a barrel over 1600 feet per second and a gas checked bullet would let you push the bullet up to 2600 feet per second. Now I believe that when you push a bullet over 1300 feet per second you need a gas check on it. For a while many years ago I shot IHMSA pistol silhouette using gas checked bullets. I gave up after a few months because the knockdown on the 50 pound 200 meter targets was not as good as jacketed bullets. This was with my XP-100 in 708 Remington. I loaded both gas checked and jacketed bullets at 2600 fps for competition.
flintnapr	..	#4	[-]
Posts: 605 (10/04/09 12:21 AM) Veteran Member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	thanks for the guidance, jeeper

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