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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: Blacklab on January 07, 2009, 11:32:02 PM

Title: Imput on chargemaster 1500 RCBS
Post by: Blacklab on January 07, 2009, 11:32:02 PM: Got my midway flyer and there on sale $300.00. It's some serious cash but kind of interested. Like to here your pros and cons.
Title: Re: Imput on chargemaster 1500 RCBS
Post by: Wenatcheejay on January 11, 2009, 09:17:15 AM: I have one, I don't have any problems. I also bought my father in law one, he finds flaws in everything but never once has complained. His friends only gripe was that he doesn't have one.
Title: Re: Imput on chargemaster 1500 RCBS
Post by: wsmnut on January 12, 2009, 11:40:55 AM: I have one. I 've been using it for two years. Love it. I wouldn't do it any other way.
Title: Re: Imput on chargemaster 1500 RCBS
Post by: haugenna on January 12, 2009, 08:02:25 PM: Quote from: Blacklab on January 07, 2009, 11:32:02 PM
Got my midway flyer and there on sale $300.00. It's some serious cash but kind of interested. Like to here your pros and cons.

I might as well be the bearer of bad news. They are expensive powder dumps in my opinion. They have ,at least, .3 of overrun. Meaning the scale takes too long to signal back to the dump and the scale continues to dump powder. I use mine as a dump and set it a couple tenths less my desired load. I take it off the scale and put it in a balance beam scale. Then I trickle in the last few tenths. For my "not so accurate" loads I use the CM1500 by itself.
Title: Re: Imput on chargemaster 1500 RCBS
Post by: whacker1 on January 14, 2009, 09:09:32 AM: I bought the Lyman 1200 DPS a few years ago and have been very happy. I manually weigh every few loads at random and they are usually within very tight parameters below .1. Accurate Enough that my 270 chrono's repetittively with tolerances less 50 fps high or low every time. less than 3/8 MOA at 200 yards.

Now I haven't loaded with it on my 300 Ultra Mag yet, as I am waiting for backordered Nosler Brass. But hopefully in February, I will have another caliber to talk positively on.

Only important factors I have found is that it is important that you not leave powder in them overnight - in case of moisture. And to do a fairly thorough job cleaning powder when you are done.

About 1 in 10 loads will go over by .1 or .2 grains, but the scale usually shows me that before I am able to pull the powder, and I just dump that faulty mearure back in the reservoir and punch out another one.