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Digital Powder Scales

Post by Evil Zim on Sun May 22, 2011 4:34 pm

With my 49 year old vision, I have a heck of a time reading the fine details on a regular powder scale. I'm considering a digital one with a decent size display to avoid any mishaps. Any experience with digital powder scales and if a good one, what model would you reccomend?

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by SubGunFan on Sun May 22, 2011 4:53 pm

What about using a magnifying glass to read the b-b scales....? That is what I do........... Smile

I just don't trust digital scales when I am working with 4-5gr loads.



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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by jbpmidas on Sun May 22, 2011 4:55 pm

You loading for pistol Zim?

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by captain-03 on Sun May 22, 2011 5:55 pm

SubGunFan wrote:I just don't trust digital scales when I am working with 4-5gr loads.
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I am with SGF on this one ... OK when I am dropping 40+ grains; not so trusting when I am dropped 3 grs.

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by jbpmidas on Sun May 22, 2011 7:18 pm

You need a powder thrower. When loading for pistol, I throw 3 charges and weigh it on a digital scale. If my charge is 5 grains, I am looking for 15 grains on the scale. When I get 15 grains, or within an acceptable range, three times in a row, I start charging cases.

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by Evil Zim on Wed May 25, 2011 9:35 pm

Loading for pistol. 9mm.

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by PhillipM on Wed May 25, 2011 10:28 pm

Try Lee dippers for casual reloads.

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by crazyace85 on Thu May 26, 2011 2:39 am

I like the lee pro auto disk. It expands the mouh and drops the charge in one step. It drops very consistent and speeds up the process a lot for the single stage press loader. I've also seen the lee pro auto disk on dillon machines because folks say it works better for them than the regular powder thrower.

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by msredneck on Thu May 26, 2011 6:52 am

Man evil...if you can't tell if a beam pointer is lining up even...it might be time for a eye doc visit.

Can you see the pistol front sight ?

RCBS 10-10 get one

I only weigh about 1 in 20 charges on pistol anyway...My Lee Auto disk is very consistent

I trickle every rifle round

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by Xd357 on Thu May 26, 2011 4:40 pm

Rcbs chargemaster.

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by DBChaffin on Thu May 26, 2011 7:19 pm

I'm with JBPMidas and throw multiple charges (generally 5 or 10) to solve the issue SGF and Captain have with digitals.

For what it's worth, I posted a lengthy version of my technique in this prior thread about digital scales:
http://www.msgunowners.com/t4257-anyone-got-a-digital-powder-scale-they-really-like-and-trust?highlight=scale

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by miker84 on Thu May 26, 2011 7:48 pm

I do the dividing thing like JBP too for pistol.

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Re: Digital Powder Scales

Post by rdinak on Thu May 26, 2011 7:51 pm

RCBS Chargemaster is the only way to fly..My 50 year old eyes struggle to read my rcbs beam scales..

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