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Need some advice on picking a scale.
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<blockquote data-quote="MontanaJack" data-source="post: 1598951" data-attributes="member: 25389"><p>Sounds like you got lots of advice. We gunners like to crow if someone will listen to us, ha, ha. My two bits worth. Forget the manual scale if you do more than a few boxes a year. I've got the old RCBS Chargemaster 1500 and it is awesome. I can load 3 boxes of 20 shells an hour, weighing every charge that is a must for rifle. Lucky to do a box an hour with a beam scale. Love the automatic trickler. By all means, put it through the calibrate cycle every time you sit down to use it. Re-calibrate if you move it. Get a set of standard grain weights and double check your desired charge. Mine has never been off, but once is too many. My beam scales collect dust. Don' use powder measures with course rifle powder. They're OK for fine particle size pistol powders. I started years ago with my treasured Webster beam scale with an oil paddle damper. Still have it. Used standard weights to set it. Never did like the newer magnetic dampened beam scales. Too slow. Checked them with my weight set anyway. Didn't trust the cheap moveable weights with their course slots. Don't scrimp on the scale. Afterall, its your life can't afford a mistake with charge weight. Good luck!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MontanaJack, post: 1598951, member: 25389"] Sounds like you got lots of advice. We gunners like to crow if someone will listen to us, ha, ha. My two bits worth. Forget the manual scale if you do more than a few boxes a year. I've got the old RCBS Chargemaster 1500 and it is awesome. I can load 3 boxes of 20 shells an hour, weighing every charge that is a must for rifle. Lucky to do a box an hour with a beam scale. Love the automatic trickler. By all means, put it through the calibrate cycle every time you sit down to use it. Re-calibrate if you move it. Get a set of standard grain weights and double check your desired charge. Mine has never been off, but once is too many. My beam scales collect dust. Don' use powder measures with course rifle powder. They're OK for fine particle size pistol powders. I started years ago with my treasured Webster beam scale with an oil paddle damper. Still have it. Used standard weights to set it. Never did like the newer magnetic dampened beam scales. Too slow. Checked them with my weight set anyway. Didn't trust the cheap moveable weights with their course slots. Don't scrimp on the scale. Afterall, its your life can't afford a mistake with charge weight. Good luck!! [/QUOTE]
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