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Does anyone have any recommendations for check weights? I know RCBS and Lyman do some, are their any others?

I don't believe he offers this service anymore. I've tried to contact him by phone twice, e-mail through his website twice and PM here twice and I've never received a reply.

Laurie wrote:

I find the RCBS scales fiddly to change the weight, but once set at a given wieght, they are very consistant. I'd like to get them tuned if I can find someone to do that in the UK. [Triffid]

Allan Edwards (The TargetMaster trickler man and '1066' on this forum) does that, and probably knows more about handloading scale accuracy / reliability than anybody in the UK.

Dromia's point about acquiring and using check weights is 100% correct too. And ... use them to check the scale balances at whatever charge weight you're actually using and have set the scale too.

I think the preferred check weights are the lab check weights.

dave_303 wrote:Does anyone have any recommendations for check weights? I know RCBS and Lyman do some, are their any others?

Have an electronic scale from ebay 6 quid, with check weights - took them to the lab & had them checked to 0.001 gram - spot on!? :-)

So then i set my powder thrower using these scales to 47.5 +/- 0.3 & kept the hopper full & threw 300rnds of N140 in to RWS cases & rammed a 155 gn SMK head in to the std CIP length... & the results for this inaccurate sloppy process? - 1/4-to 1/2 MOA elevation at 600& 900yds.

What the heck do RUAG / RWS do to get way more variation than that?

If it can measure 0.1 grain its way good enough. Modern piezo electronics are very accurate & reliable, just keep the battery fresh & have a known check weight if your unsure. mine will measure in grains, grams & Oz.

I have just bought a set of gempro 250's which I'm hoping will replace my rcbs 505's. I've bought the gempro's purely as I can quickly and easily weigh anything like cases bullets powder etc where as I could only weigh a set charge of powder easily with the 505's that's my only small gripe with them however!

Evening peeps,

Now I know that I'll be burnt at the stake for heresy , but, my £29.95 lee powder thrower is more consistant then my Lyman Gen 6 ( I compare it against a lee beam scale and whilst I am not too much worried about what the scale reads ( or is set to), the lee thrower constant let balances at the mark and the Lyman thrown charges wander). Just for the record, I loaded a series of 308's with the lee thrower and had +/- 1 digit of deviation ( i.e. up to 9 fps ) between rounds. A series loaded using the Lyman ended up +/- 40 fps

Mmmmmm £29.95 vs £250 +.............

Unless the bulk density changes, then the volume/ weigh must remain the same ????

I now use the Lyman to confirm the Lee beam value and set the thrower accordingly. I know that this means I will burnt at the "FTR stake of Non Lee'ness" but it works for me.. :lol:

As always, just my opinion, which are like Ars*s, everybody has one...others acre available see radio times for details.


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the greek