I understand the desire to seat a gas check as straight as possible...it just seems like the thing to do. But I've been thinking about that some. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the little 30000 psi jolt the bullet gets would pretty much iron out any existing gas check seating deficiency in very short order. Is there evidence that this does not happen, or that there are deleterious effects on accuracy when it does happen?

BTW, I have decided my 358429s shoot just as well as my 358156s. Once I run out of gas checks, I'll just retire the mold and go with the 358429. Same plan for my .41 Mag (currently using 410610), once I get around to casting some checkless bullets to try out. I avoided the GC route altogether when I started casting for .44 Mag and .45 Colt.

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