Howdy All...

I would like to know, if it is safe to use my RCBS powdermeasure for blackpowder... (it is the one that follows, when purchesing a master reloading kit)

Now I am tired of weighting the black powder the slow way, but some say it is safe to use the RCBS... some say it is not safe...

If it is not safe, which measure should I get instead?

Nothing w/ a steel measureing chamber should be used. It needs to be brass or other non sparking alloy. I load by vol. so don't use a measure.

waitaminit, all BP is based off volume.. that's normal. in fact, ALL manual powder measures work by volume... just so happens that most reloaders work off the mass of that volume, and adjust the volume to change the mass

call the RCBS hotline and ask them if it's safe.. i would assume its nonsparking.


you can do this 2 ways... one is easier..

#1 ... weight a volume charge, in fact, weigh 10 of them, and average them out... that is the weight, in grains, that your volume takes. NEVER NEVER NEVER assuming that a different powder will have the same density (volume to mass) and weigh EVERYTHING if you change anything

#2 mess around with the powder measure until some volume matches your desired volume.. this is the least precise way...