Ready for reloading
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Re: Ready for reloading
Enjoy! I hope you find it as much fun as I have. Here's a tool that I took too long to buy. If your budget can handle it, I recommend the RCBS Chargemaster, either the 1500 or the Lite. It saves a lot of time in the measuring process. My friends and I have tried various manufacturer's models, and found the RCBS to be accurate and good quality.
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- Joe338ST
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Re: Ready for reloading
deerhunter338mag wrote:You got a video out already [bbvideo=560,315]https://youtu.be/ejNy809EKX8[/bbvideo]
I'm still laughing
The poor guy loses half his hair and mo.....
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Re: Ready for reloading
Its funny, fake but funny.
I prefer a powder thrower to a digital automatic unit, its faster and still very accurate.
I prefer a powder thrower to a digital automatic unit, its faster and still very accurate.
I'm soft and I don't care.
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Re: Ready for reloading
I've found a powder thrower for spherical or short grain powder and automatic power dispenser for long grain powders works best especially if you are worrying about velocity variation at long range. Those first round vitals hits at extended range are much easier with long grain powders that are stable over temperature, provided the wind doping skills are there.
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Re: Ready for reloading
Its a jungle to find out what to get, I just know, I want a digital weight
Olsen
Blaser R8 Proff Succes .308 win - 9,3x62
2 shots in the same hole is often luck......3 in the same hole is using Olsens shooting stick....
Blaser R8 Proff Succes .308 win - 9,3x62
2 shots in the same hole is often luck......3 in the same hole is using Olsens shooting stick....
- Joe338ST
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I've got the Hornady version automatic powder measue/digital scale and it works a treat for me.....
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Re: Ready for reloading
I'm on my 2nd RCBS Chargemaster. Wasn't happy when the first one broke after 7-8 years but bought a 2nd... I imagine the other brands like the Hornady are good too.Olsen wrote:Its a jungle to find out what to get, I just know, I want a digital weight
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Im looking at Hornady too, and I think its a good brand too.Vaughan wrote:I'm on my 2nd RCBS Chargemaster. Wasn't happy when the first one broke after 7-8 years but bought a 2nd... I imagine the other brands like the Hornady are good too.Olsen wrote:Its a jungle to find out what to get, I just know, I want a digital weight
Olsen
Blaser R8 Proff Succes .308 win - 9,3x62
2 shots in the same hole is often luck......3 in the same hole is using Olsens shooting stick....
Blaser R8 Proff Succes .308 win - 9,3x62
2 shots in the same hole is often luck......3 in the same hole is using Olsens shooting stick....
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Re: Ready for reloading
Either way, a damn sight better than messing about with scales and tricklers and crap like that.Olsen wrote:Im looking at Hornady too, and I think its a good brand too.Vaughan wrote:I'm on my 2nd RCBS Chargemaster. Wasn't happy when the first one broke after 7-8 years but bought a 2nd... I imagine the other brands like the Hornady are good too.Olsen wrote:Its a jungle to find out what to get, I just know, I want a digital weight
Consider getting a good tumbler with stainless steel pins for cleaning your brass at some point. I have the one from Frankford Arsenal and wish I had bought it years earlier.
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Re: Ready for reloading
I use a Chargemaster and it has given years of accurate service. My son recently bought a Lite and we put them side by side measuring same powder. Transferred powder from one dish to the other and measurements were spot on in both. Don't think you would go wrong with either.slugslinger wrote:Enjoy! I hope you find it as much fun as I have. Here's a tool that I took too long to buy. If your budget can handle it, I recommend the RCBS Chargemaster, either the 1500 or the Lite. It saves a lot of time in the measuring process. My friends and I have tried various manufacturer's models, and found the RCBS to be accurate and good quality.
https://ads.midwayusa.com/product/77215 ... gK7N_D_BwE
Regards,
Use a stainless tumbler as well and this a really excellent adjunct to the reloading process.
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Re: Ready for reloading
I had a small Set of digital reloading scale (wont say what brand they are) . I got myself the RCBS chargemaster and everything changed for the better. I test them both on a set of scientific laboratory digital scale that were certified and used in a laboratory. My small digital scale was very inconsistent and the RCBS chargemaster was one or two kernels out. Now the chargemaster was around $350 why the Aussie buck was good and the lab scales are well over $3k and are checked professionally all the time. Most import thing is, what every you get go and get yours checked against a set of scales that are checked for accuracy by someone trained in weights and measurements. Then you know you have accurate scales. I like to keep my scales in the house and do all my powder measuring in side the house in the same place every time. I always leave the scales on for an hr before use. One thing I noticed with the mates lab scales is there never off. He’s lucky as it’s in his work place and he’s not paying for them. But he’s been told to not switch them off as they run better when just left on.
Measure it, when it’s on the deck
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Re: Ready for reloading
Thanks for assuaging my personal guilt about owning "stuff", Bobstokesrj wrote:I'm glad for you, and hope you enjoy reloading as much as I do. And it is too bad you don't live near me, I'm downsizing my reloading and getting rid of many thousands of bullets and cases, hundreds of pounds of powder, dozens of dies and miscellaneous. I could outfit you fully a couple of times. I'm moving from 42 calibers down to about 20 or maybe less if I can convince myself to do so.
My modest collection of bits and pieces seems positively ascetic when compared with your inventory
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Re: Ready for reloading
I think its hard to go wrong with a basic set up, theres no point getting anything advanced until you manage the basics.
Or in my case theres no reason to get advanced when the basics do everything that I want.
Or in my case theres no reason to get advanced when the basics do everything that I want.
I'm soft and I don't care.
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Re: Ready for reloading
I started with a Lee single stage of ebay ......
I may have gotten a little carried away
I may have gotten a little carried away
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Re: Ready for reloading
Ok that gives me a man cave chubby, it would be absolutely over kill and a waste of money for me, as I only load 20-50 rounds at a time generally.
But that doesn't mean I can't apreciate it.
But that doesn't mean I can't apreciate it.
I'm soft and I don't care.