you do not need gas checks for handgun

 

Much obliged sir

 

Ditto that.

Unless you are pushing your lead very hard, and leading up your barrel, pistol bullets at moderate velocitys dont really benefit from it.

 

I can't speak from personal experience as far as casting, but a friend of mine does a lot of casting and reloading for cowboy action and sillouette shooting. He told me he only uses gas checks on his hot-long distance rifle sihlouette loads, but not on anything else. I have used his regular cast bullets in my 38spl handgun loads with no problem. I also bought some cast swc 38spl bullets from a guy who sells them at the gun shows locally. He sells 275 for $7.00. I have fire well over 200 of those with no problem other than minor leading, which is to be expected. No problems though.

That's all I know about it.

 

I only use them for HOT!!!! ,357,.41,and.44Mag ammo. Kinda figured that they help keep leading down at 1500fps or better.

Go ahead and buy the molds that are made for gas checks. The bullets will work just fine with or without the GCs and you may decide to add them later.