What powder scale to buy

[paguy]

Looking for a good powder scale for various hunting rifle calibers. What should I buy.

[Crunchy]

I use the rcbs charge master 1500.  No complaints, works as it should.  Nice not to have to weigh each load by hand.

[h20hunter]

 

[jrebel]

RCBS beam scale works great.  Make sure to buy a trickler and a good RCBS uniflow powder drop.  Or you can spend the same money and buy an electronic scale / powder dispenser.   I have they Lyman gen 6 (I believe) and love it. 

[hogslayer]

A&D FX-120 if you want the best.  Charge master is close.  But can throw .1 grains pretty easily.  Best way to get accurate on chargemaster is to throw .1 grain short then trickle slowly until it reads correct number

[Magnum_Willys]

 

A&D FX-120 if you want the best.  Charge master is close.  But can throw .1 grains pretty easily.  Best way to get accurate on chargemaster is to throw .1 grain short then trickle slowly until it reads correct number

Chargemaster was more accurate than beam scale for me. 

I already had chargemaster so use it to auto throw and check with fx-120 to get within 1/2 kernel accuracy.     

[savagehunter]

Electronic or beam scale?

[GWP]

Batteries have NEVER gone dead on my old RCBS beam scale!
 

[b23]

For the stick kernel powders the digital scales like what my Chargemaster or even Dillon D-Terminator dig scale work pretty good but for the small flake powders like 1680 that I use in my little 17 Hornets those electronic scales just aren't sensitive enough and they react way to slow for that kind of powder.  The A&D FX-120 is a much more precise scale and reacts to the slightest change even with powders like 1680.  I haven't had my FX120 all that long but I wish I would have gotten one a lot sooner.

[Come Get Some]

A&D is $750.00. We use the rcbs scales. Alot more affordable

[Stein]

Here is what I use, incredibly accurate and consistent and you can't beat the price. Not as fast as an automatic loader, but I'm not in a hurry.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071GYVQF3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[jrebel]

I have yet to understand the need to get I kernel of powder specific.  If you find your node it shouldn’t matter.  My gen 6 Lyman will get to a tenth of a grain.  My most recent reloading venture has an extreme spread of 7 between 5 different loads at .2 gr increments.   It has a exstreme spread of 1 between 3 loads or .6 grains.  Pick the middle of that weight and load away.   

With that said.....one of these days I will own an a&d 120 because I am a little anal retentive sometimes. 

[Fl0und3rz]

Hunting rifle?  RCBS 505 or Redding beam scale.  With one of those and a set of Lee dippers it is likely as accurate and quick as the auto charge dispensers. You can get a trickler, but with the dippers, you don't really need one.  If you are going to be weighing for shotgun loads at some point, get an RCBS 1010.

[M_ray]

I use a Lyman gen 6 and it’s always worked perfect

[actionshooter]

 Another vote for both the Lyman Gen 6 and the Chargemaster.

I think the chargemaster has the edge, tends to throw a little more consistent but cost more...

[Magnum_Willys]

With that said.....one of these days I will own an a&d 120 because I am a little anal retentive sometimes.

Thats why we get em!    At 1000 yards or less not sure it helps that much on target.... but does eliminate powder charge as a variable letting one concentrate on neck tension.  And they are great for weighing priners when you really get retentive!

[Bill W]

With that said.....one of these days I will own an a&d 120 because I am a little anal retentive sometimes.

Thats why we get em!    At 1000 yards or less not sure it helps that much on target.... but does eliminate powder charge as a variable letting one concentrate on neck tension.  And they are great for weighing priners when you really get retentive!

Weighing primers... dang, I never thought of that.  But in the cast bullet BR events I shoot/shot in I weigh my bullets and sort them by weight.

[GWP]

I finally mixed up all my Hornet brass that was by weight. I am just not accurate enough to worry about that kind of stuff any more. It is like anything else, you can get as crazy as you want getting everything 'just right'. It still comes down to the shooter in the end. I will not state for certain that most of that detail 'actually' helped, but maybe mentally? Which is a plus.
On a plate shoot (handgun, center fire) once I ran into a guy that was there to watch and after talking to him he shot my spare piece with some low power close range practice ammo I had. He ended up in 2nd over all and beat me. It was pretty fun to watch. If he had not had a 'flyer' (I warned him the ammo was not for longer distances) he probably would have won.