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| Large flake powders don't meter well, especially in small amounts, from any measure. Ball powders and short sticks do much better.
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| Posts: 531 | Location: Louisiana | Registered: 01 January 2010 |
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| Brad, I think you should consider getting a different powder measure.
What cartridge are you reloading? |
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| I load 38, 9mm, 45 acp for now. |
| Posts: 7 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: 28 January 2010 |
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| That why they make powder scales I find lee auto disk throw ligher then listed. that why I measure the charge and use the proper one. Not always the one listed.
I have 4 lee 1000s and use them to load 10s of thousand of rounds pistol ammo. Pick the powder you want to use pick the disk they recommend and go from there. Weigh the charge thrown go up or down from there.
I use redot, green dot, herco, bullseye ect with no trouble. The powder the gave me fits I stopped using it was 800X very big flakes did not throw a charge well at all |
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| Thanks p dog , that's what I have been doing is just making a note of the disk I use and then checking the weight of every fifth case that is loaded. |
| Posts: 7 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: 28 January 2010 |
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| Iceman Interesting use of 3-disks. I have used 3 regular disks to load .30/06 with H4895. ES was usually .4 to .5, once .7.
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| Thanks Iceman, I bought the pro disk update kit and will try the micro charge bar. |
| Posts: 7 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: 28 January 2010 |
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| quote: Originally posted by Oldcoyote: Iceman Interesting use of 3-disks. I have used 3 regular disks to load .30/06 with H4895. ES was usually .4 to .5, once .7.
Mine works really well like that. I threw 50 charges in a row and measured every one and the most it was off was .2 of a grain with about 90% within .1 or spot on. If i make a change to the charge it does take about 4 throws to stabilize or maybe it just takes me 3 or 4 to get back in my routine, but I was impressed with it for the price. My lymann 55 can be off that much. If i get a chance i'll snap a few photos of my disk setup so you can see it with the longer screws i added and the shims i used. |
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