Dispensing Powder charges ?

J

Just Mike

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How do you dispense your powder charge? I mean do you weight each or just use a measure to throw'em (after setting with a scale of course)?

If you use throw with a measure which one is your choice?

(This double post is intentional to see if there is a difference between how point blank shooters and long range guys do things.)
 
Mike

I am a great believer that to be competitive EVERYTHING you do to your ammo must be as close to identical as possible including the powder charge. That eliminates throwing charges without checking.
 
i just bought a denver instrument's mxx-123 electronic scale. .02gr.....all my match ammo will be weighed.
i do not load at the range like some do.

mike in co
 
Throw it then weigh it!

I think most all long range shooters will throw powder then weight the charge , usually throw it a couple of tenths shy of your target weight and trickle the rest in the pan. The short range guys will load strictly on volume only. A +/- muzzle velocity due to a couple of tenths of a grain one way or the other won't mean much at short range, but could be several inches at 1000 yards.

I don't use anything fancy: an RCBS powder thrower and a Redding magnetic dampened beam scale gets it done for me.
 
Pointblank w/6PPC....... just throw the charges from a Harrell or Redding, carefully.

600/1000yd .......... throw to get close, weigh to the single kernel of powder.

al
 
weigh them all

I throw them light then trickle on my Acculab scale and use tweezers to add or remove one kernel. My goal is to get to single digit ES and I find myself even double weighing sometimes to be sure. Nothing helped me more than having a good scale that reads to .02 and learning how to use it.

As an example, my ballistic software shows a .5 MOA difference in a mere 25 fps change... I have enough problems without my ammo working against me! :D
 
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