I'm looking into purchasing a better powder measure.I've got an RCBS Uniflow now and I was looking for something that would drop more consistent charges.I'm looking for something that will consistently give me around plus or minus one tenth of a grain drops. The Reddings measures are the ones I've been thinking about,but have not quite decided on which model I want for loading cartridges up to 300 Win. Mag.Thanks for the help.

Baldhunter, do a search on this forum on "powder measure" and you will get all the info you need. Basically Culver, Neil Jones, Harrells etc. Now, one problem you may have is that the extra precision comes at a price eg. the Harrell is available in different "sizes" meaning capacity of powder thrown, thus your 300WM would need a different measure than say a 222 Rem. Bear in mind also that stick powder will not meter as well as ball powder no matter what the measure (IMHO).
Peter.

Laugh all you like but my old, plastic Lee will do tenth-grain drops if I execute my tap and stroke maneuver consistently. I never drop for dead-on charging, anyway. If it's target ammo, I trickle up that last half-grain. If it's .223 blastin' ammo, one to two grains is just fine. But really, the little Lee is pretty good. It has an o-ring lock on it that never moves once it's set. A consistent tap-and-stroke routine, and it's tough to beat. It just isn't high-class enough for some. They can have their high-class. I'll take inexpensive and works every time. The bullet probably does not know nor care if the powder was dropped from a $20-- or a $300-- powder measure.

A promethius is the only powder thrower that I know of that will drop .1grn everytime. BR shooters have started weighing their powder as all these measures use volume and it changes with temp and humidity. I have seen guys that have the best powder throwers spend all winter practicing their throwing method. You can not throw .1 every time even with ball powders.
Butch

Maybe, but I watched Tony Boyer win the Super Shoot with one of those inefficient Neil Jones measures one year. He seemed to think he could hold .1gr with it in a conversation we had. Ditto for Alan Hall.

I really like my CPS (Neil Jones) and he is one of us...

Rich

Rich,
You ain't been around a BR match in a while. Tony uses a RCBS Chargemaster and weighs his powder. I haven't seen Allan Hall at a centerfire match in years. You may catch him at a few rimfire matches.

Butch

Early 1990's. I shot Alan's rifle that year at the SS.

Rich

That was back when "Blueprinted Remingtons were championship capable".

Butch
Is the prometheus back in production?
Do you know of amy way to contact the maker?

muck

DocEd,

you are correct sir. Does that make me old?
I went with Russ Haydon. I had done an article on him that was in the December PS. It was the year Tony had the open heart surgery, quad bypass IIRC; and won the SS.


Rich

I use an old Belding & Mull that i've had for years, it works for me, very consistant too.

Stepchild

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:


you are correct sir. Does that make me old?

No, just out of touch. Get with the program, dude.

Trickle charger and scale. There's nothing tossing a charge that is more accurate than a scale.

The Promethius has been highly modified. My little mind is blank. Whats his name that built them left Shilen 3-4 yrs ago and last I heard was working for G. David Tubb.
Butch

Butch:
Brand Cole. I thought he left G.David to go to Shilen? That was a few years ago.
I sold mine and kept the Gunderson. Bought another Gunderson recently. Maybe in a couple years a new one might find its way to market.

Alan

No, Brand left Shilen and went to G.Davids. I haven't heard where he went to next.
What is a Gunderson?
Butch

Butch:
Gunderson (don't know what his first name was) made eletronic throwers starting back in the 50's. Mine is from the last of his work sometime around the mid to late 60's. There was a write up in American Rifleman -- I think in 54 when they first appeared.

I can throw 250 charges per hour all within .04 grains. If I push it to 300 the spread runs up to .07.

I think there are about less than two dozen of them left in the world that still work. Mine is in my will.

It is my understanding that they where all hand made and each has it's own little characturistics (sp). The second I just aquired runs well, but is not at all the same in time delays or response to adjustments as my first.

Alan

Thanks for the info Alan. I left you a private message.
Butch