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Worst thing you have purchased for reloading
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<blockquote data-quote="tumbleweed7mmstw" data-source="post: 1661785" data-attributes="member: 52721"><p>Sure a lot of negative comments about electronic scales on here. I'll pitch in an old "worst-thing-purchased-for-reloading" item ever. Back in the early 1990"s, I was looking for a faster way to produce a lot more pistol ammo reloading to keep up with my handgun practice. This was the early days of progressive loading machines. Purchased an RCBS "Piggy Back Progressive" system that was made to be added on top of my RCBS Rockchucker, thinking this would be the answerer. Not cheap either, paid over 200. What a mistake that was, never could overcome all the problems with it. Less than a few years later I spent over a thousand loading up a Dillon 650 with all the bells and whistles. Fantastic progressive loader, still using it today for most all of my pistol and 5.56/.223 loading. About electronic scale/powder dispensers, I do have and use my RCBS ChargeMaster, drop the charges short and finish them on the RCBS 10-10 beam scale with the Redding powder trickler. I don't like "digital" readings for measuring my high power rifle loadings as all digital readings are rounded up or down to the next closest reading. It's like looking at your phone to see what time it is, keep looking at it is now 12:44 or is it almost 12:45? No way to tell if that scale reading is just close to 58.6 grains or about to hist 58.7! Now with my RCBS 10-10 scale sitting dead level on the elevated shelf of my reloading bench, I'm looking straight ahead at my eye level and watching that line on the beam move to the dead center of the middle marker of the scale body as I trickle in the last little grain of powder. Consistency is what accurate round to round or shot to shot is all about. I do like that Chargemaster modification "Reloader28" has shown us and I'll be getting one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tumbleweed7mmstw, post: 1661785, member: 52721"] Sure a lot of negative comments about electronic scales on here. I'll pitch in an old "worst-thing-purchased-for-reloading" item ever. Back in the early 1990"s, I was looking for a faster way to produce a lot more pistol ammo reloading to keep up with my handgun practice. This was the early days of progressive loading machines. Purchased an RCBS "Piggy Back Progressive" system that was made to be added on top of my RCBS Rockchucker, thinking this would be the answerer. Not cheap either, paid over 200. What a mistake that was, never could overcome all the problems with it. Less than a few years later I spent over a thousand loading up a Dillon 650 with all the bells and whistles. Fantastic progressive loader, still using it today for most all of my pistol and 5.56/.223 loading. About electronic scale/powder dispensers, I do have and use my RCBS ChargeMaster, drop the charges short and finish them on the RCBS 10-10 beam scale with the Redding powder trickler. I don't like "digital" readings for measuring my high power rifle loadings as all digital readings are rounded up or down to the next closest reading. It's like looking at your phone to see what time it is, keep looking at it is now 12:44 or is it almost 12:45? No way to tell if that scale reading is just close to 58.6 grains or about to hist 58.7! Now with my RCBS 10-10 scale sitting dead level on the elevated shelf of my reloading bench, I'm looking straight ahead at my eye level and watching that line on the beam move to the dead center of the middle marker of the scale body as I trickle in the last little grain of powder. Consistency is what accurate round to round or shot to shot is all about. I do like that Chargemaster modification "Reloader28" has shown us and I'll be getting one. [/QUOTE]
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